[WEB4LIB] Googol?

[Keith Higgs]

Too bad the scripts are buggy. Fails the usability test.

At 10:46 AM 1/10/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Have you guys seen this yet?
>
>http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/3.html - Search 5 Years of Instant
>Messenger Logs - "In November of 2001 AOL Time Warner, responding to a 
>subpoena from
>Attorney General John Ashcroft, made available to the Justice Department a
>
>complete archive of all private conversations held over AOL Instant
>Messenger (AIM). Through the power of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
>, Googol was able to obtain a copy of this entire logfile, totaling over
>2 terabytes of conversations previously thought to be private. This unique
>resource provides insight into the minds of potential anti-American 
>terrorists,
>cheating spouses, and countless computer neophytes."
>
>http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/aimsearch - The search engine is here
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23610.html - an article about the
>whole thing.
>
>It would have been funnier if the results were not "canned"
>*********************************************************************

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