AOL must have missed the uproar over the DOJ’s demand for “anonymized” search data last year that caused all sorts of pain for Microsoft and Google. That’s the only way to explain their release of data that includes 20 million web queries from 650,000 AOL users.

Two gigs (439 MB compressed) of raw search data. And yes, even anonymitized, it's not a pretty picture.

There are hundreds of searches from people looking to kill themselves and even more scary are searches from users that seem to be looking to commit murder.

AOL, I liked you better back when you were Q-Link.

Unrelated yet amusing: Flickr Engrish group. Know thyself.
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