[Air-l] AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users

[Maciej Kos]

This may be useful to some of us.

"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."

"Update: Seems like AOL took it down. There are some mirrors of the data in
the comments of the digg story, linked below. I estimate about 1000 people
have the file, so it's definitely going to be circulated around. The main AOL
research page is still up, with some other data collections. The google cache
of the download page is still up, but you can't get the data."

"500k User Session Collection
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This collection is distributed for NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH USE ONLY.
Any application of this collection for commercial purposes is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

Brief description:

This collection consists of ~20M web queries collected from ~650k users over
three months.
The data is sorted by anonymous user ID and sequentially arranged. "



http download
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=DDD1D4D0017BB5BE

Torrent
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3510027
http://www.mininova.org/tor/388815

AOL website´s cache:
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