I Know What You Did Last Spring On Sunday, August 6, 2006, news broke in the blogsphere that AOL had released customer search data.[1] The (since removed) press release[2] from their research page[3] notes in part: Footnotes: AOL Just Did the Unthinkable – Boycott AOL? ¶ Exhibit B ¶ AOL Research ¶ August 6, 2006