I dunno, the list reminds me of those shortwave radio stations that broadcast nothing but long lists of numbers.
I don't think searches are confidential. I've seen pages in the past where you can see what people are searching for, sometimes live. Heck, search 'clouds' are quite popular these days. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that someone earlier today performed an internet search on my > wife's full name, which will be a very rare search term. > > I was curious to see what they found so I did the same. > > The first site Google listed executed a screen capture type attack from > the well-known virus-onlinescanner.com site. It filled my computer screen > with a graphic that looked like a browser and a dialog box that said my > computer was under attack, but I could block the attack by clicking on an > OK button. (I force quit the browser instead.) > > Reviewing my cached pages I found that the site Google directed me to was > a very long list of (I think) captured searches. If you dare, take a look > at www.plesk-verkoop.nl/img/glyph/3/blog.php?p=nnnn where nnnn apears to > be any integer. Each nnnn leads to a different list. > > So has somebody hacked into Google to capture our searches? > > Any idea of who to report this to? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
