20M search queries released by aol

Don't forget that AOL may have seeded the data with fake search terms to catch search engine spammers.

Actually, forget that. They are clearly too stupid. Google have probably seeded their data though.

 

I got the completed torrent overnight, and I'm starting to tackle the data.

It would be nice to see someone, with much more data mining experience, post a results summary. I beleive there is tons of good information to be learned from that list.

 

If they were that smart they wouldn't have released the datas in the first place.

 

I don't see why is so important? You could find related terms for a word from ouverture or adwords. I don't see the value of this information.

 

the value is in the fact that the data is unfiltered

 

Oops found it now..

 

By afternoon i'll have a section where you can search a live database of the data and get back results. I'll post when it is up and running

 

Would be great 1EightT, thanks.

 

awesome work,hope see it soon

 

Has this thread came up today? or yesterday..if not im surprised

Check out www.techcrunch.com for more info if you havnt

It's certainly a must need to know about "thing"

 

I found a page with links to download the AOL search data release. Many mirrors.

http://aol-search-data.real-sol.com/

Hope this is usefull.

I forgot to mention i will design a tool to analize this list, maybe something like overture. any one have suggestions of what function would be usefull?

 

Please add frequencies into your tool if you can. Pretty please

There is already a tool online here http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com

 

This results arent very good, i think some processing needs to be done to the data so that i can be more usefull maybe like overture. Frequencies? are you reffering to how many searches per month?

 

By frequencies I mean the number of times a particular keyphrase was used. E.g. 'blue widgets' was searched for 1233 times

 

That makes me thinking of how dumb people must be at AOL.

 

Well it takes a couple of hours to load this into a MySQL DB. But there is 2.1GB of search data goodness in there.

Actually at worst looking at the data is good for the amusement factor alone, at best this is going to throw up some really interesting stuff from an SEO perspective.

I am taking a look at the iterative approach people use to building search queries.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't AOL search powered by Google? Are these results just repagkaged Google results?

 

is this data *only* from using AOL’s search engine, or does it include ALL searches done by AOL members (meaning searching using Google, Yahoo, etc) while logged in to AOL?

 

Yes, AOL is powered by Google.. you're essentially seeing Google results.

 

AOL is powered by google. So the data is AOL members using the google serps.

 

Hey all.. we made a usable search tool based on the AOL data.. it basically works exactly like overture except that it returns 1000 results. Also, you can select the individual keyword returned and see the site that were clicked and the average position.. the domains is still replicating but you can visit

dontdelete.com
OR hit the IP
63.212.167.185

Let me know your thoughts..