AOL creepy user watch, volume 8

The tech world continues to condemn AOL's exposure of private search records, then gleefully sift through those records. Here's more of what we've found digging through AOL's garbage.

• AOL users don't know shit about search. Pretty much every user entered at least one web address into their search bar instead of their address bar.
• Also, one user searched for "want to see the new gm. site," thinking that if he asked nicely, maybe AOL would finally return a decent search result. That was User 21319088, who also searched for "bill gates," "chess" (over twenty times) and "hot girls." Judging by later searches for "Marvin Gaye" and "Al Green," he may have actually scored.
• A reader found User 16536165, who spent two evenings searching for naked kids (which, frankly, is getting cliched. The world needs a new horrific sexual perversion).
• Journo Jason Lee Miller wins at AOL coverage by writing the following paragraph in WebProNews:

  We might conclude that User C is a teenager heavily into the urban scene, as many of his searches focus on financing gold and diamond teeth, information on how to become a rapper, female buttocks, gang pop culture, car hydraulics, and how to roll a "blunt."

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