Privacy groups are accusing Google of violating California law in its reluctance to provide a direct link to its privacy policy on its homepage

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology ...

The referenced NYT blog is probably this one:

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05 ...

Also a breakdown of some search engine entry pages and SERPs and their Privacy links here:

michaelzimmer.org/2008/05/27/c ...