AOL’s Search Query Release Just Got Real

Staff / Truthdig Aug 22, 2006 AOL has been taking its lumps lately (and rightly so) for releasing data on the search queries of millions of its users. If that sounds a little abstract to you, check out a few of these queries. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AOL?s New ‘Golden’ Business Model

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2006 America Online, the beleaguered Internet giant, has announced plans to dig for gold?seriously. The company recently won a lawsuit against a spammer who then skipped town, so it plans to search his parents? property for gold and platinum bars it believes to be buried there. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AOL Exposes Users

Staff / Truthdig Aug 8, 2006 America Online recently released the search queries of more than 650,000 of its users for ?research? purposes. The data contained three months' worth of searches that were attached to unique user IDs. No names were included with the release, but private information was easily gleaned from some of the queries. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AOL Said, ‘If You Leave Me I’ll Do Something Crazy’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2006 Listen to the hilarious "Today Show" appearance of a guy who nearly had to sacrifice his firstborn child to get an AOL customer service representative to cancel his account. Times article on him Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New York Times Roundup

Staff / Truthdig Feb 5, 2006 The Gray Lady publishes a slew of important and underreported stories its Saturday edition: Two federal courts strike down the Partial Birth Abortion Act because it doesn't have an exception for the life of the mother Yahoo and AOL are going to introduce digital postage stamps that companies can buy to ensure delivery of their e-mail Most Internet users have no idea how easy it is for courts to get ahold of their personal information The personal savings rate of Americans falls below zero for the first time since the Great Depression Now James Frey's editor says that he, too, was fooled by the fabricating fabulist. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

You’ve Got Jail

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jan 25, 2006 In case someone in the Justice Department is reading this, let me hasten to explain why I just clicked on the Victoria's Secret online catalog photo featuring a certain "Very Sexy Lace & Mesh Garter Belt." AOL made me do it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Sex-War Synergy at AOL

Blair Golson / Truthdig Jan 25, 2006 AOL's tasteless feature Hollywood "Babes in Arms" proves that mass media remains unbowed in its pursuit of exploiting war as a sexy, romantic profit center. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )