do you? I have tried more than 3 tools to try search different terms and all search counts were not digestable to me. for example. sex is searched less than 2k times in 90 days. I think there are some glitches in AOL released data. Do you feel same? Please correct me
it was only 1.5% or something similar of the total searches conducted over that period that was released im sure
AOL's market-share could very well be the asexual crowd. I dont have the data-- try looking up "Bible Study Groups" "Activist Judges" and the thing when all the "good people" go directly to heaven.
I doubt AOL released over 2 gigs of fake data. That'd be a lot of time wasted just to give you bad PR.
seriously, as someone with the data I can say it is real. It's just going to take time to dig through and understand it.
DP is in there a lot and I'd expect that. I'm with the colonel and am building a data warehouse to decipher the data.
We'll have to take in account that the AOL users are not necessarily an statistical sample of internet users. They are AOL users. Much like you wouldn't be able to compare searches by users in Saint Louis, MO with the rest of the internet users. But there will be a wealth of information worth finding in the data.
You know, now that I think about it, I did a few random anonymous user searches for kicks, and every single search history had terms like "retirement communities, cash out 401k, elderly singles, colon blockage, high fiber foods, hip replacement specialist in New Jersey, etc." My mother is 66 and she has AOL. My neighbor is 70 and he has AOL. My business partner is 61, and he has AOL. Come to think of it, I only know one person under 40 who has AOL, and he doesn't seem like the internet porn type. Maybe AOL does stand for Asexuals OnLine.
Of course, I was playing a little...but I doubt there will be many tech searches on AOL. A different animal altogether.
On the original page where it was released, AOL explicitly wrote that there was pornographic information within it. This could mean one of two things, they released it unedited (what I believe) or they tried to remove as much of the explicit material as they could. Then again, I dont think people search solely for the word "sex" when they are trying to find pornographic material.
AOL Releases ****20 million web queries from 650,000 AOL users. 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. data size around 450mb ziped. i got it also
I don't understand your question. Proof that the data was released? Search "AOL keyword data" on this forum.
They also have a good number of dial up users. When I use my 72 year old mother's Compuserve/AOL account I turn off the pictures in my browser so I can check gmail and other webmail accounts in a timely manner. Age and bandwidth may explain the low numbers for a specific keyword category.