Simple Google search outed alleged Silk Road founder

It was a simple Web search that led to the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, accused mastermind of the Silk Road underground online marketplace, a U.S. Internal Revenue Service special agent testified Monday in a Manhattan federal courtroomAs the first step in investigating Silk Road, IRS agent Gary Alford, who was part of an agency task force investigating organized crime, simply entered “Silk Road” into Google and looked for the oldest mention on the site.The details he found would ultimately le