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am I missing something with that 36 months? from the ars article:

"After 18 months, Google anonymizes the unique cookie data stored in these logs."

a 2.5 year old searchengineland article also says they use a hash function using keys that are discarded every day, which means that search streams will be 24 hours long apiece:

http://searchengineland.com/anonymizing-googles-server-log-d...



Urgh. I was severely sleep deprived last night and I am starting to feel that I shouldn't have posted at all. You are correct about 18 months.




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