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I started this blog after the major mistake AOL made by releasing search data that includes 20 million web queries from 650,000 AOL users and get this the data contains personal information and with a little cross referencing it's worth gold. The data includes all searches from those users for a three month period this year, as well as whether they clicked on a result, what that result was and where it appeared on the result page.
In a possible massive violation of federal privacy law, America Online released the logs of nearly 20 million web searches documenting three months of activity by 650,000 AOL users on Sunday ten days ago in an effort to share data with the search research community.
Data have been online for about 10 days but the appalling phk-up escaped notice until this weekend.
Details of the search histories, gathered between March to May this year, were revealed in what AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein describes as, "innocent-enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools".
But, "This was a screw up, and we’re angry and upset about it," Weinstein admits in a statement.
"Although there was no personally-identifiable data linked to these accounts, we’re absolutely not defending this," he says. "It was a mistake, and we apologize. We’ve launched an internal investigation into what happened, and we are taking steps to ensure that this type of thing never happens again."