Remember earlier this year, when the Department of Justice demanded that search engines turn over logs of over 1 million URLs?
Remember how Google resisted and countersued?
Remember how the Judge ruled that the DoJ could only have 50,000 nerfed results?
Well, someone at AOL haphazardly released the search results of over 650,000 quasi-anonymized people into the public domain a couple days ago.
Oops.
Markus Frind explains why this is not a good thing for Google, the same company that recently paid AOL $1 billion for exclusive rights at powering search across all of AOL’s properties.
Update: the New York Times actually managed to track down one of the users and interviewed her.