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Overview. On August 4, 2006, AOL Research, headed by Dr. Abdur Chowdhury, released a compressed text file on one of its websites containing twenty million search queries for over 650,000 users over a 3-month period; it was intended for research. AOL deleted the file on their site by August 7, but not before it had been copied and distributed on ...
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Mar 11, 2015 · Topics. dec3199, leaks, aol, search. Collection. opensource. Language. English. Files of the AOL search data leak which occurred back in August 2006. Addeddate. 2015-03-11 00:05:24.
Aug 9, 2006 · Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher’s...
Aug 7, 2006 · AOL Releases Search Logs of 657,427 Users 346. Posted by timothy on Monday August 07, 2006 @04:41PM from the give-or-take dept. An anonymous reader writes "AOL has released the search logs of over 650,000 users for research purposes.
Feb 23, 2021 · In 2006, AOL’s research department accidently released a compressed text file on one of its websites containing 20 million keyword searches by over 650,000 users in a three-month period. The file was quickly removed, however, the information was mirrored and spread throughout the Internet.
Aug 7, 2006 · AOL apologized on Monday for releasing search log data on subscribers that had been intended for use with the company's newly launched research site. The randomly selected data, which...
