31 August 2006

They know all about you

Every time you use an internet search engine, your inquiry is stored in a huge database. Would you like such personal information to become public knowledge? Yet for thousands of AOL customers, that nightmare has just become a reality. Read more.


I used to work for a search engine not so long ago, and am quite familiar with the in's and out's of what is talked about in this article. But I still cant fathom how AOL ever dared to put out such data... Even if it is a mistake, it's pretty scary, coz such 'mistakes' must never happen at all.

2 comments:

Prometheus said...

Err...and which Search engine would that be? The one that you worked for? :P

Vijayalaxmi Hegde said...

Man, aint u clever?!!