Confirming earlier press reports, MSN Search said it did comply with a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for search terms and indexed Web pages that was similar to the one Google is fighting. But MSN said the data provided was less than government lawyers originally requested and could not be traced back to IP addresses or used to build profiles of seekers.
A Friday posting on the official MSN Search blog by Web search general manager Ken Moss said that the company received a subpoena from the Justice Department in the summer of 2005 for data from its search services.
Moss did not detail specifics of the request, but it is thought to have been similar to the Google request, which originally asked for
