Thursday, August 17, 2006

Not the best month for AOL...

Aug 3rd, AOL announces they will be laying off 5,000 of the 19,000 people working for them.

Aug 7th, AOL releases 3 months and 650,000 users worth of search queries. The New York Times has identified one of these anonymous people from one of the many sites that have the data available.

Aug 15th, AOL was caught spamming articles on Digg.com. They were having employees digg items to get ratings. (Maybe why they are getting fired? lol)

Aug 16th, AOL says a convicted spammer may of hidden half a million dollars in gold and platinum on his parents' property. Tonka Time.

hrm. 2 weeks left in august. lets see what happens.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/03/technology/aol_layoff.reut/
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dangelo/aol-search-query-logs/
http://data.aolsearchlogs.com/
http://www.splunkd.com/
http://diggforlife.blogspot.com/2006/08/aol-busted-for-spamming-digg.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14365934/

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