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Google has been targeted in a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of violating user privacy by passing along search queries in referral links.
The suit, filed yesterday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that Google's practice of including search terms in the URL for search-results pages violates user privacy when that URL is passed onto the publisher of the Web site clicked on by a Google user. For example, when a Google user searches for "sushi restaurants in San Francisco," Google generates a search results page with a URL along the lines of "http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=sushi+restaurants+in+san+francisco," and that URL gets passed along by your Web browser when you click on one of the results.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20020753-265.html#ixzz13UZLoP3M
