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overdriveelectronics



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well thats no good but its kinda cool to see what people search for and what websites they actually go on!
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ya thats not good to know but what negative effect it can have on AOL search engine and whats their reaction on this?

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ya however it doesn't gives the personal information about the users but its really an embarassing moment for a monster company like AOL. Atleast now they will understand that the search engines are not for everyone. Atleast not for AOL.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ya very nice statistics how they are collecting this

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
wow this is really interesting... i think other SEs should do this.. LOL Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This thread is more than 2 years old now...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
And still active can anyone provide new thread.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:45 am    Post subject: Re: AOL user search database is on the loose Reply with quote
submit wrote:
This is a huge story...
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The security breakdown, disclosed earlier this week, publicly exposed about 19 million search requests made by more than 658,000 AOL subscribers during the three months ended in May. Time Warner Inc.'s AOL intended to release the data exclusively to researchers, but the information somehow surfaced on the Internet and was widely copied.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14282868

You can see the data here:
http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com/
or
http://www.dontdelete.com/

The full database can be dowloaded here:
http://www.gregsadetsky.com/aol-data/

This is very intersting...you can see all the stuff a user has searched for...for example type "search engine otpimization" and then you see which users searched for that and take one User ID to see what else he searched for.


there are very very informative and execellant link here.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
very nice information thanks for sharing to all
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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2009 3:50 am    Post subject: Old Info Reply with quote
A breach of privacy has occured many times since this orignal post. Searching history is one thing, but social security card information is more damaging.

If anyone cares what people are searching for, google now has data for everyone to see at http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
great statistics on this.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yah, that's great for google to have that site for everyone to see their data.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is interesting but not of any great help for SEO services.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Absolutely!! Great information to share but on the other hand what an breach of user's privacy. I think AOL should not indulge in this strategy which might hurt user's sentiments..What say??
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