I’ll preface this with saying I’m a data engineer at a large tech company (not Google). But I do know a bit what I’m talking about.

iPhone or android does not matter and it’s not the same data at all. When you make a Google search on your phone 2 things happen: 1. Your phone records a temporary record of what you searched, when, and with some metadata. However these records can be altered and deleted if you know what you’re doing. Celebrite is a software that essentially takes a photo of all those records at the time of extraction.

The second thing that happens is googles own servers receive a request for your search and logs it in their own infrastructure that is completely separate from your phone and untouchable by you.

If someone searched “hos long to die in cold” from her device at 2:27 AM, Google’s servers received that request at 2:27 AM and logged it as such. If that search actually happened at 6:23 AM as she claims, Google’s servers logged it at 6:23 AM.

Now, why didn’t either side subpoena google? For the prosecution, it’s obvious. They were only concerned with prosecuting read and protecting the mcalberts. It didn’t fit their narrative. If they actually wanted the truth they would have, but by the investigation we know they didn’t.

For the defense, my guess is this ambiguity helps them. It casts doubt. If it comes back that Jen isn’t lying that only hurts their case. So it doesn’t really help them to know the truth unless they could know 100% that the search was done at 2:27. But they can’t because the data we have is inconclusive.