FAQ: Protecting yourself from search engines: What you type in online may not be as private as you think.
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749: 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 anonymity, but it was not much of a shield.
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