AOL Goofup Leads to Google Keywords Leak

posted by   phani (188)   29 months ago (desicritics.org)

Because AOL uses Google as their search engine. Which means anyone laying their hands on this data potentially has nearly 20 million queries to work with to come up with list of top keywords people are searching for!

Imagine the possibilities with this - anyone can manipulate this data with the search terms and make websites for those queries. Its obvious that Google is now going to be majorly pissed at AOL for leaking this data. But what is more concerning is the way AOL has released this keyword list, with not enough concerns about any privacy.