• @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    11 year ago

    Fair enough. I don’t think it’s common for someone to be doing Google searches without having an account linked to other services, though.

    Anyone using YouTube, Gmail, etc. would be logged in.

    And everyone with an android phone who uses google search would very likely be linked to an account, for example.

    I just thought it would cut to the chase for Google to provide account holder info and not just IP addresses.

    Then again, the arsonists could have very well used any of the other search engines to look up the address. So… maybe police aren’t aware that other search options exist.

    • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      It’s a shot in the dark for sure, but if it did have a hit, that’s probably the arsonist.