searching AOL's leaked queries: kinda neat and scary

cwerdna · 08-16-2006, 05:07 AM

One place where you can search AOL's inadvertently leaked queries of 658K subscribers (mentioned at http://news.com.com/AOL+apologizes+for+rel..._3-6102793.html) is http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com/.

http://news.com.com/AOLs+disturbing+glimps...098.html?tag=nl has some interesting of examples of searches and hypotheses that one can draw from them...

**TonyPSchaefer** · 08-16-2006, 09:09 AM

Alright, that's just downright freakinshly bizarre.

But once you get going, it's a little addictive. Enter a search term and you get all the people who did a search on that term. Then click a user number to see all the searches that person did. Eerie.

Luckily, no one's queried me.

withersea · 08-16-2006, 03:31 PM

Some of it is pretty scary. Tony's right - it is addicting.
I did a search on Priuschat and came up with only one result.

OK guys- which one of us is AOL user 1115193? This person has a 2005 Prius; shops at Sears; has a Motorola 551; uses paypal; Pizza Hut and Pearl Vision. Lives in Illinois; feeds their dog Iams; and much much more.

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08-16-2006, 05:07 AM	#1
cwerdna Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 1,492 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #7 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	One place where you can search AOL's inadvertently leaked queries of 658K subscribers (mentioned at http://news.com.com/AOL+apologizes+for+rel..._3-6102793.html) is http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com/. http://news.com.com/AOLs+disturbing+glimps...098.html?tag=nl has some interesting of examples of searches and hypotheses that one can draw from them...

08-16-2006, 09:09 AM	#2
TonyPSchaefer Ruler of Omicron Persei 8 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Far-North Chicagoland Posts: 8,418 My Car: 2004 Prius Package: #9 Nominated 4 Times in 2 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 16	Alright, that's just downright freakinshly bizarre. But once you get going, it's a little addictive. Enter a search term and you get all the people who did a search on that term. Then click a user number to see all the searches that person did. Eerie. Luckily, no one's queried me.

08-16-2006, 03:31 PM	#3
withersea DNF is better than DNS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: TN Posts: 1,145 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #7 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 2	Some of it is pretty scary. Tony's right - it is addicting. I did a search on Priuschat and came up with only one result. OK guys- which one of us is AOL user 1115193? This person has a 2005 Prius; shops at Sears; has a Motorola 551; uses paypal; Pizza Hut and Pearl Vision. Lives in Illinois; feeds their dog Iams; and much much more.