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

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-data-hows-it-going-15036 http://searchengineland.com/anonymizing-googles-server-log-d...