Samizdata - 1:50 pm on Feb 10, 2009 (gmt 0)

search logs should be something psychologists and therapists are granted accesss to

As I recall the search terms of AOL users were famously exposed a couple of years ago.

There was even a play staged about it, named "User 927", written by Katharine Clark Gray.

Playwright Gray explains that unlike some of the other leaked search logs, User 927's queries were anything but linear and also anything but conventional. Whoever User 927 was, he, she, or they topped the charts on AOLStalker because of their often peculiar quests for knowledge. Many users rated the search log a masterpiece, putting it in the top-10 rated users out of all 650,000 subscribers.

Psychologists and therapists already have plenty of data, it seems.

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