AOL Accidentally Releases Data From 20 Million Searches

Written by Joe on August 8, 2007 – 11:42 am -

AOL (America Online) LogoAOL rrecently eleased search data gathered from 650,000 of their customers, causing an uproar about privacy concerns and dazzling webmasters. The 20 million search queries, listed with an anonymous number correlating to which user made the search, if and what result they clicked on, and what rank that result was on the page, were made available yesterday and then taken down a few hours later. Too late though, as dozens of mirrors have popped up hosting downloads of this huge 500ish MB file.


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