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Sure, but there's still a big scope difference; "who searched for this one address right before it burned down" versus "who searched about abortion; we don't know anything much more specific than that".

> Google delivered information on 61 queries, according to court filings, along with the IP address — a unique number for each computer on the internet. Investigators focused on a handful of those queries, asking Google to provide detailed user information for them. One of them was linked to the 17-year-old.

That's pretty narrow.



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