All AOL Data searches at one place

Search the AOL data list here, searches will open in a new window and might take a while.
Searches are provided by Real-sol, Sipmlified Sec, dontdelete.com

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AOL 's $658 Million Privacy Breach?

27B Stroke 6

In a possible massive violation of federal privacy law, America Online released the logs of nearly 20 million web searches documenting three months of activity by 650,000 AOL users on Sunday ten days ago in an effort to share data with the search research community.

Technorati Tags: aol data, datalist, adsense keywords

Another website to search the AOL data

And yet another website to search the AOL datalist:

http://aol-search-data.real-sol.com/

New York Times journalis tracks down AOL Searcher No. 4417749

Journalist Barbaro analyzed the AOL datalist and tracks down searcher 4417749

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No. 4417749 conducted hundreds of searches over a three-month period on topics ranging from “numb fingers” to “60 single men” to “dog that urinates on everything.”

At times, the searches appear to betray intimate emotions and personal dilemmas. No. 3505202 asks about “depression and medical leave.” No. 7268042 types “fear that spouse contemplating cheating.”

Read full story here

First one to monetize the AOL datalist

will not be me. But you might have an idea or come across a website that's done it. If so don't leave us in the dark and share it with us by emailing it or in the comments.

I personally think the data is for the long term. You know optimizing (SEO) your website based on the AOL analysis.

Well let's wait

Analyze AOL data list websites

Submit your analyze AOL data websites to aoldata@gmail.com

and I will put them on this blog.

AOL data release debacle

AOL data release debacle
AOL’s public release of well over half-a-million search records comprises one of the Net’s worst privacy violations ever.

Data have been online for about 10 days but the appalling phk-up escaped notice until this weekend.

Details of the search histories, gathered between March to May this year, were revealed in what AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein describes as, "innocent-enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools".

But, "This was a screw up, and we’re angry and upset about it," Weinstein admits in a statement.

"Although there was no personally-identifiable data linked to these accounts, we’re absolutely not defending this," he says. "It was a mistake, and we apologize. We’ve launched an internal investigation into what happened, and we are taking steps to ensure that this type of thing never happens again."

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Thanks to the folks at digitalpoint.com

another website to search the AOL Data list:

http://dontdelete.com/default.asp

AOL Data list has been digged ofcourse

AOL Search Data Shows Users Planning to commit Murder.

http://research.aol.com released a list of 20 million + searches by

500,000 AOL users. Contained in this list are social security numbers,
credit cards and other personal information. There are some truly scary
things in this database. User 17556639 is constantly trying to find
ways of killing his wife.

AOL apologizes for release of user search data

AOL apologizes for release of user search data | CNET News.com

AOL apologized on Monday for releasing search log data on subscribers that had been intended for use with the company's newly launched research site. The randomly selected data, which focused on 658,000 subscribers and posted 10 days ago, was among the tools intended for use on the recently launched AOL Research site. But the Internet giant has since removed the search logs from public view.

What would you do?

AOL Gate on Reuters.com

OFFICIAL-AOL draws fire after releasing search data | Reuters.com

(Corrects to change the number of affected users to 658,000 in first paragraph.)

NEW YORK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - AOL on Monday said it released a small portion of keyword search information for about 658,000 anonymous AOL users in a move that ignited a firestorm of criticism on the Internet amid calls for tighter protection of the privacy of users' Web searches.

The Internet division of media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) released search information on about 20 million searches done from its AOL software over a three-month period.

The data was released about 10 days ago on its own publicly accessible research Web site, but it escaped notice until this weekend.

The link to the actual file, containing searches done by users whose personal ID are replaced with random numbers, is no longer available.

"This was a screw up, and we're angry and upset about it," Andrew Weinstein, an AOL spokesman said. "It was an innocent-enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant."

© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.

Another AOL data Search webpage

Second one I found who has the data online

AOL SEARCH DATABASE

Top 500 keyword list from the AOL data

Found this little top 500 keyword list from the AOL data

http://fuaol.com/

Main keyword -

Torrent download for the AOL data

can be found here

Download completed

Let the fun begin extracting the b*tch.

If you would like to know something just drop a comment and I will try to search for it (no private stuff will be revealed).

Where I found more information

The AOL Data buzz is all over the web. Weblogs
and forums are talking about it.

I bet this is going to be in the news for a while.

AOL Data: The Ultimate Adsense Keyword List

If you found this blog you probably heard of the big mistake AOL made on the 6th of August. Many marketeers and webmasters will use this as their holy grail as this a valuable keyword list.
But it's more than that, what about the following usages:

Want to know which link partners to choose? With the AOL data you can see which sites are getting the most search traffic across many keywords.

Want to know how much to pay for a link? With the AOL data you can estimate what kind of search traffic that site is getting from Google.

I will try to blog about the usages marketeers and webmasters have come with. How the AOL data has helped marketeers, webmasters and website owners make money

As I am typing this post I am downloading the 439mb .tgz file. As I have extracted it and made it searchable I come up with other usages (I hope)

You can download the huge file yourself by clicking here