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by Haskell 6385 days ago
Removing the last 8 bits or, by the way, the whole IP address from the user log data DOESN'T make it anonymous.

http://tinyurl.com/l8rfm

"Yahoo will also hide cookie data related to each search log and strip out any personally identifiable information, like a name, phone number, address or Social Security number, from the query itself."

There's much more personal information in a few month of search logs than that.