AOL recently published the search terms used over a three month period by 650,000 of its users. They say the data was collected in an attempt to benefit some unknown academic researchers. While no user names or screen names were used, the NY Times was able to find one of the users fairly easily. Since much of this data is apparently making its way around the Web, it's likely that other users will be identified. I'm glad that I don't use AOL, but what is Google and Yahoo doing about this?
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