Headline writers descended on San Jose yesterday but couldn't seem to figure out whether Google or the Department of Justice was the winner in a judge's ruling that the company would have to turn over a list of 50,000 Web sites and 5,000 search records.
Perhaps the most hilarious feature of the coverage of this case is the blogosphere's fascination with Judge James Ware and a pretty terrible idea he had a few years back, which involved making up a tragic story about a dead brother while awaiting appointment to the Ninth Circuit. Apparently, all that is required for a blog to claim an exclusive is a link to an eight-year-old story.
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As importantly, the man whose tragedy he appropriated is responsible for the infamous quote about how someone told him that they saw something on the Internet, "and then I knew it must be true."
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