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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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As I recall the search terms of AOL users were famously exposed a couple of years ago.
I got hold of a copy of that while it was in the open. Think that I dumped it in a weekend 'cleanup' at some point. Though a little scary, it was funny as could be. Users weren't identified in any way, but all of their searches were identifiable. It was like following them around inside their mind. You could almost pick out the people that you would not want to know or meet:))