For anyone who missed it, a few days ago AOL released (then un-released) search data for over 500,000 of their users. The data is theoretically anonymized by assigning a numerical ID to each user, though it has been proven that that isn’t particularly effective. Now, Boingboing has pointed to a server that has transformed the data into a user-searchable database.
The data provides an interesting, sometimes scary look into people’s lives (as Boingboing reported, user 2708 wasn’t going to take a bad breakup sitting down). I did a little data mining of my own and found some interesting results…
Fun with keywords!