AOL’s disturbing glimpse into users’ lives | CNET News.com
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AOL’s publication of the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users has yielded more than just one of the year’s bigger privacy scandals.

The 21 million search queries also have exposed an innumerable number of life stories ranging from the mundane to the illicit and bizarre.

For its part, AOL has apologized for a researcher’s disclosure of the massive database and has yanked the file from its Web site. It was too late: The database already had been mirrored.