Google to continue storing search requests despite AOL
A security breakdown, disclosed earlier this week, publicly exposed about 19 million search requests made by more than 658,000 AOL subscribers during the three months ended in May.
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said the privacy concerns raised by storing search requests won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.
The lapse provided a glaring example of how the information that people enter into search engines can provide a window into their embarrassing, or even potentially incriminating wishes and desires. The search requests leaked by AOL included inquiries seeking information about murder techniques and nude teenage girls.
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