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AOL Releases Search Queries of 650k Users w/o Permission

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I was about to defend them, citing Overture's Inventory stats as a reasonable example, but then I fully read the article... OUCH, they divulged ALL of the search information, doing nothing more than changing the usernames to numeric IDs. 😕
 
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: JS80
man that is stupid. why in God's name would a VP at AOL approve this?

I am willing to bet other search engines are selling search strings as well.

AOL just got caught.

They didn't sell them. They publicly posted them.
 
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