This was a really dumb thing to do and is indicitive of a a more general underlying problem. This is all about data classification and the different labels that the players involved would put on the data.

AOL clearly regarded (for a while) the data as not being sensitive and so felt free to publi...

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There are several online databases appeared too, it doesn't matter how many people downloaded the data mentioned if the data is publicly available now.

One example is http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com/...

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Great! Little apology would take care of everything. It's almost like AOL Billing.....

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Just use a search proxy already! Theyve been there for years!

Heres the one I use. http://www.blackboxsearch.com...

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