Privacy Of Aggregated Non-Personal Information When Performing Google Searches

A Google VP of Engineering discusses this interesting topic: How Google keeps your information secure.

I have a comment about Google’s privacy policy.

When a user performs Google searches, there is an expectation of privacy regarding at least two types of information:

• Personally identifiable information
• Searches

Google's privacy policy for using aggregated search data is described here:

"We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually."

http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

"Aggregate non-personal information is information that is recorded about users and collected into groups so that it no longer reflects or references an individually identifiable user."

http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy_faq.html#aggregatedinfo

Does the Google policy on the use of aggregate non-personal information prevent Google from using search information in the following example scenarios:

A team (i.e. aggregate) of research scientists is doing research to patent a new router, or a lunar spacecraft engine.

It appears that Google's privacy policy allows the searches of aggregated research scientists to be shared with third parties.

Is this a huge flaw in the privacy policy?