Pat Rock on Aug 16th, 2006FREE Keyword Research
The second day up and we’ve already added a new feature. You can now do free keyword research on the free keyword research page.
Basically the way this works is that you search for a phrase and it returns all the other phrases that people who searched for your original phrase searched for in orde [...]
Pat Rock on Aug 15th, 2006Search The AOL Search Logs — AOL Part 3
Announcing AOL Data Search my web based front end to search a portion of the AOL Search Logs that were released for research purposes last week.
What I have Done
Last week when I read on Tom Kyte’s blog that AOL had released 36 million search records for research I immediately went and downloaded it. After [...]
Pat Rock on Aug 9th, 2006Putting Faces to Searches — AOL part 2
As far as I can tell the New York Times did it first. Here is their article on Thelma Arnold, user 4417749.
Thelma is 65 and used aol to search for medical information for her friends, many of whom probably aren’t too internet savvy. But to someone on the outside looking in it would [...]
Pat Rock on Aug 8th, 2006How To Commit Suicide
The AOL User Search Scandal
(disclaimer: If you have reached this site by actually searching “how to commit suicide” and are considering suicide please seek help right now. You can call 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) if you need to talk to someone who cares.)
This weekend AOL released 36 million lines of search query indexed by an anonymous [...]