[WEB4LIB] Googol?

[Sloan, Bernie]

It's a hoax. Someone just forwarded this to me off list:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23610.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven.Cohen at rivkin.com [mailto:Steven.Cohen at rivkin.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:47 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Googol?


Hi all,

Have you guys seen this yet?=20

http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/3.html - Search 5 Years of Instant=20
Messenger Logs - "In November of 2001 AOL Time Warner, responding to a subp=
oena from=20
Attorney General John Ashcroft, made available to the Justice Department a =

complete archive of all private conversations held over AOL Instant=20
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=20
2 terabytes of conversations previously thought to be private. This unique =
resource provides insight into the minds of potential anti-American terrori=
sts,=20
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=20
whole thing.

It would have been funnier if the results were not "canned"
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