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Aol just released 500k users web queries

asdf [PersonRank 1]

Monday, August 7, 2006
17 years ago9,176 views

http://research.aol.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Research.500kUserQueriesSampledOver3Months

All they do to protect users privacy is change the name with a number. Poor AOL users.

asdf [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Looks like they already took it down. Techcrunch has the story: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massive-amounts-of-user-search-data/

Only a matter of time before the torrent pops up.

asdf [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Google's cache of the website:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:2Qvd2z9VbuIJ:research.aol.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php%3Fn%3DResearch.500kUserQueriesSampledOver3Months+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Joseph Ropkins [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

The file is still available for download.

stephen [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

Man AOL is going to be in PR hell soon.

Ridwan [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

the file is no longer there...

Joseph Ropkins [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Ridwan: There are a ton of mirror sites already distributing the file. It's too late.

Writer Shore [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

AOL in PR hell soon, hmm...what do you think of their re-design efforts, they don't seem to be laying over and dying? and what of Google's $5 billion investment in them? Is that just for their advertising pull with AIM?

OREO [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

This is sooooo messed up. wow.

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I'm glad I'm not an AOL user. People will be boycotting AOL now,

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

who uses AOL Drive?

"All your queries belong to us"

The data is just awesome! A lot to play with

Piotr Konieczny [PersonRank 9]

17 years ago #

Wher's the file?

Greg Sadetsky [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

File mirrors:

http://www.gregsadetsky.com/aol-data/

Ridwan [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

May be someday AOL will say :
From today onwards we bring equality to all AOL users. Anyone can – from now on – access everyone's email, files and documents. We are not going to filter anything. Not even the user's deepest secret. From now on the accounts will not be password protected. All you need is the user names. And if you don't know what a person's user name is click here (aol.com/userinfo) to access our user info database...

[Sorry AOL this is just a joke.... i think ;)]

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

https://www.cafepress.com/blankslate

And I need a perl Guru :)

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

The new tagline: "AOL – Putting Research First".

Jack Spirko [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

I am looking for anyone who had AOL dial up and after AOL said you could leave and keep your screen name ect has left. I am looking for you to explain what happened, what was said when you called to cancle and what features are and are not still available to you now.

Thanks, Jack

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