AOL's public relations nightmare just turned into a night terror. On the heels of months and months of bad news, AOL Research flubbed on a scale so massive that New Coke rears its head back and laughs. Hundreds of thousands of users' formerly private search queries were made public.
boycotts come flying towards them. Though it was Google search data, which Google refused to release to the DOJ earlier, it is specific to AOL users. Adam D'Angelo of California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) seems to be the first to I am no wiz kid, but looking at that sample, I was able to determine that this person is female, who is active with the american cancer society's program, "tell a friend", and that she lives in texas. She also likes the gaithers gospel music, and was looking into going to disneyland and a possible cruise with the gaither band. "Combine these ego searches with porn queries and you have a serious embarrassment," adds Arrington. Some of the queries are quite dark. deceased AOLers trying to cancel
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