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August 8, 2006
Spelunking the AOL Search Data
Two sites have popped up for wandering through the now-deleted and highly controversial AOL search data:- aol search database -- slower, but more specificity and more detailed results
- don't delete -- faster, with keyword clustering and counts
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After reading C|Net's story -- http://news.com.com/AOL+offers+disturbing+glimpse+into+users+lives/2100-1030_3-6103098.html?tag=nl -- I'm sure there will be many lawsuits over AOL's data release.
There may even be suicides. Or, more hopefully, people who were planning suicide, murder, or crime who are deterred/prevented/helped by the public release.
Thought this may be of interest.
http://www.dontdelete now has following functions
- See which keywords bring traffic to which URLs
- Random User search
- Top 500 keywords searched for
Pretty interesting. More to follow
Paul,
Thanks for the pointers. I had some fun with them, searching for "TechCrunch". Here's my post about it:
http://www.brianberliner.com/2006/08/09/techcrunch-and-the-aol-search-data/
Enjoy!
-Brian
http://www.brianberliner.com/
There's a website to analyze and duscuss particular AOL users: http://aol.zanoza.lv/
"My neighbour is killing cats": http://aol.zanoza.lv/user/723190
"ways to kill yourself": http://aol.zanoza.lv/user/9486162
"wife killer": http://aol.zanoza.lv/user/17556639
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749: http://aol.zanoza.lv/user/4417749
You can try aolsearchlogs.com also