The Google subpoena is a good thing

This morning NPR teased a segment on the DOJ-Google lawsuit with the line "You may not be aware that when you use Google, the sites you visit are recorded." If this one fact enters the public consciousness, then the lawsuit will have done a great service. A few months back I started to write a post saying that I found myself restricting searches that I didn't want made public (Hey, I'm a heterosexual male), but I thought it sounded too paranoid. Now this is becoming common knowledge. This is an important moment for the Web. Next we can start arguing about the propriety of search engines like Google storing user search history in the first place. It's about time that debate was started.