Unfortunately for AOL Searcher 4417749, there was enough info in AOL’s searcher data, released for 650,000 users, to be IDed by the New York Times. If you’re afraid of this happening to you, web developers at Unspam Technologies Inc. have a tool for you.
Lost In The Crowd randomly generates queries to confuse anyone who might look through future search records. Users download a search engine bookmark from Lost In The Crowd before going to the search engine and clicking on the bookmark.
Downloading the bookmark hands the Web cookie for the search engine to another computer operated by Unspam, which runs random searches on the searcher’s behalf, several times daily for up to six months. Source: TechWeb
Unspam CEO Matthew Prince said “Lost In The Crowd” took one week to develop. Here’s my question: just how much extra web traffic would be generated across the world if we all ran this? 
From the image above, I haven’t quite gotten lost yet, but you can see how easy it is to stop using Lost In The Crowd if you want.
Tags: AOL, Technology, Google, Search, Security
