Comments on: Week in review: The seedier side of search

AOL suffers a black eye this week thanks to its search business, but it also gives us an eye full of surfers' bizarre search habits.

[orchycore]

But think of the tools

The release of the data, has had one major upside. A new level of insight into search engines. This tool here http://www.askthebrain.com/aol/ allows you to view the keywords people have searched for for any site you specify. Eg how did people find Download.com? http://www.askthebrain.com/aol/www.download.com

[wbenton]

Unethical Tactics

AOL has a reputation for unethical tactics... least of all is collecting continued use of AOL for deceased members.

That said... this is yet just another unacceptable AOL approach.

Appologized or not, it's still unethical and unacceptable in the world of our's today.

Walt

[talledega500]

Search proxy = user protection

There are so many search proxies out there I dont know why non-techies dont get it or know about it.

Heres a free and really easy one to use that prevents user tracking with no software to download.

http://www.blackboxsearch.com

[geo11101]

Eric Schmidt is the biggest Mafia puppet in the US. He is bad news for apple users. http://endmafia.com