SiliconFilter

You can also consider filing a request to get one of those CDs with all data on file about you sent to you (See http://siliconfilter.com/getting-facebook-to-give-you-all-your-data-is-easy-in-europe/)

I'm not sure if it includes images but if Facebook didn't actually delete the images you might have a shot, especially if you mention you just want the images restored which might be easier for them to do than make your custom CD.

Also; if you want to be a good techie teach your friends the following:

- in the event of serious life-shattering data-loss

- do as hard a power-down of your computer as soon as possible

- and hand it over to a data-recovery company or the smartest geek you know

It might cost you a pretty penny, but at least you have a pretty good chance of recovering your data.

From https://www.siliconfilter.com/hiybbprqag-google-claims-bing-is-copying-its-search-results/ it seems Google engineers laid a trap by using IE with Bing Toolbar and Bing Search Suggestions enabled. Not clear what was gathering the data, but this article doesn't say whether the Google engineers clicked on the bogus-keyword's result link. If they did, then clickstream as you say. If they didn't, something in the IE+Bing mix scraped links from whole Google results pages.