ugcs.caltech.edu — AOL just released the logs of all searches done by 500,000 of their users over the course of three months earlier this year. That means that if you happened to be randomly chosen as one of these users, everything you searched for from March to May (2006) is now public information on the internet.
Aug 6, 2006 View in Crawl 4
tom6aAug 6, 2006
Very interesting find. I digg. Here's a link to the AOL research: <a class="user" href="http://research.aol.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Research.500kUserQueriesSampledOver3Months">http://research.aol.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Research.500kUserQueriesSampledOver3Months</a>
jas168Aug 6, 2006
Dugg just to expose some of the blatent security problems with the way we view the internet these days.More people need to know why not to trust the non-existant "anonymity" of the internet.
shermieAug 7, 2006
Wow there are some freaks out there.
Closed AccountAug 7, 2006
Couple mirrors listed here: <a class="user" href="http://www.gregsadetsky.com/aol-data/">http://www.gregsadetsky.com/aol-data/</a>
variableAug 7, 2006
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habilusAug 8, 2006
forget
foofahrahAug 8, 2006
oh yeah, i'm currently indexing it.. it's about 1/6 of the way done
frakilkAug 8, 2006
Nice.Any chance of adding ability to show frequencies of keywords and keyphrases?
madingaAug 8, 2006
I found some interesting entries on an hour-long readthrough, in case you haven't seen this...<a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/tech_news/AOL_500k_research_search_database_eye_popping_stories_from_real_life">http://www.digg.com/tech_news/AOL_500k_research_search_database_eye_popping_stories_from_real_life</a>
mdavis2678Aug 8, 2006
i digg... check this out... here's the info at your fingertips in an easy to use tool<a class="user" href="http://www.20minutestokill.com/blog/2006/08/08/fun-aol-search-tool-keyword-taint/">http://www.20minutestokill.com/blog/2006/08/08/fun-aol-search-tool-keyword-taint/</a>
maxhoustonAug 9, 2006
Does anyone know of a good site that had been put up to discuss the aol results? I've found a lot of interesting stuff that I'd like to discuss with others. Perhaps one good thing that could come out of all this is that people will realize 1) how much personal, intimate information about ourselves we pour into search engines, 2) how easy it is to knit together a profile of us (fair or not) that the authorities could consider reasonable suspicious enough to scrutinize us more closely. This data shows which web sites the users clicked on, along with a timestamp...that means that their IP address is in the logs on the sites they visited. That IP could narrow the search for the person down more specifically. If they posted anything on the sites they visited, you can sketch in even more detail. Someone should create a site that allows anyone to search the AOL data and allows anyone to post their own assertions about the nature of each AnonID...i.e. "xxx appears to be planning on divorcing her husband" or "yyy appears to be a drug user; appears to live in NY; appears to be a virgin; appears to be planning to visit a strip club in nyc; appears to live in Ridgewood" along with justifications like "searched the address of a strip club in Ridgewood ('6007 metropolitan avenue')" People can vote (digg) if they think the inference is reasonable.The point is to nail down a few people because if a group of web misfits can do it, surely the government can. And that is very disconcerting.I can supply the db on CD by airmail if you're having trouble downloading it.
chicksdigmeAug 10, 2006
I love this community. Please keep seeding that torrent. I will start downloading once I get home.
branditAug 12, 2006
A site where you can search the data is here:<a class="user" href="http://www.datablunder.com">http://www.datablunder.com</a>
mattytoofattyNov 1, 2006
Yeah but who cares. The only users who should be worried are the terrorists, maybe some high school kids thinking of pulling another Columbine, and yes the ever present pedophile. I am sure there could be a fall-out of sorts, but the only people aware of the magnitude would only be upset with AOL for their negligence. Then these brave informed few will probably f**k AOL's whole world up. Attack!
Closed AccountDec 5, 2007
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