compiled by the YMB Staff

Just a few weeks ago, web giant AOL got in trouble, according to the New York Times, for publishing online a "list of the Web search inquiries of 658,000 unnamed users from a public Web site". The list was published "on a new Web site (research.aol.com) [and] meant to endear AOL to academic researchers by providing several sets of data for study". Instead, it drew the ire of bloggers who "complained that the information was so detailed and personal that it could compromise the users’ privacy".

So what did AOL do again this past weekend? They published a brand new list "of 20 million search inquiries collected over a three-month period"! Outrageous! Shocking! Do they not realize the deadly power of the blogger! Do they just not care that someone at eblogger, their mom, and maybe three or four friends will read a scathing attack come Monday?

Anyway, one of the "anonymous" searches struck our researchers here at YMB as... oddly familiar. See if you don't see what we mean.

(Is that enough set up? Good.)

Here's the list of searches that AOL published for anonymous user number 34789048:

34789048 Marvel Comics
34789048 Spider-Man
34789048 Spiders with seven legs
34789048 secret identities are for losers
34789048 how to kill off married superhero spouse
34789048 "Frank Miller" Googlefight "Mark Millar"
34789048 Mark Millar $$$$$$$$$$$
34789048 Does scottish count as English?
34789048 civil war winner
34789048 American civil war winner
34789048 appomattox
34789048 Madrox the multiple man
34789048 Madrox the multiple man -"gay porn"
34789048 Ash superhero
34789048 Chuck Austen comeback
34789048 Making Sure They Never Publish Those Pictures
34789048 How To Dispose of Blackmailer's Body
34789048 IMDB "Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back" + Quesada
34789048 Joe Quesada +Eliza Dushku
34789048 "Joe Quesada" -Quesadilla
34789048 "Joe Quesada" +awesome
34789048 "Joe Quesada" +best Colbert Report appearance ever
34789048 Bill Jemas
34789048 Bill Jemas misses Joey Q?
34789048 Jem Ass
34789048 Jam Ass
34789048 Ham Ass
34789048 Dan Didio Phone Number
34789048 Paul LEvitz email
34789048 making friends of enemies
34789048 make up sex
34789048 distinguished competition
34789048 douchebag company
34789048 dinosaur charity
34789048 Detective comics
34789048 Delicious comics
34789048 Delicious cocktails
34789048 Tom Cruise Cocktail
34789048 Marvel stock price
34789048 selling stock
34789048 golden parachute
34789048 CGC 9.8 Daredevil: Father #1
34789048 Late comics
34789048 Late comics okay
34789048 Brian hibbs big mean jerk
34789048 Joe quesada smash brian hibbs