this was originally called, ‘people on aol apparently don’t search for information about the cia, nsa, hezbollah, or the fbi’….

…okay, so this aol database fuck-up is really starting to make me roll…yes, it’s relatively easy to identify a handful of people from the id numbers, but not enough to make the data set a direct marketing dream for spam (i tested this myself by looking for ‘you have messages’ type text from myspace, then went to the users, then found a user linking through to a girl’s personal website via myspace mail, then teased back to the user by ‘guessing’ that his ridiculous searches for golf lined up with the user in the girl’s myspace profile friends list who was all about golf…just a hunch)

…and, btw, if you want to just search the aol data file online and not even bother downloading it, you can now visit aol search database fo’ free….or you can download one of the many files from a mirror site around the globe…

now here’s what’s cracking me up: you search for things that were in the news and they seem to vanish from the minds of aol users…or so it would appear (cia = zero results, nsa = zero results, fbi = zero results, hezbollah = zero results, al qaeda = 2 results, hamas = 27 results - a winner!!!!) …fascinating…then you search for myspace and the list never ends…search for george bush and you run into the thousands…

…so i had to ask myself: if somebody is searching for george bush, what else might he search for? and here then is a round up of what some of these users went looking for before, during and after the bush search:

user 3006162: looked for bush, then u2’s ‘walk on,’ then keyword vomit, then vomiting, then naughty college girls, then brian eno…and more! (brian eno or vomit, i’m not sure anymore…)

user 3337450 looked for bush, then shiva, then gonesh, then merlin the wizard…then elimidate (hmm…)

user 2303405 looked for “we love president george w. bush” and then looked for aa.com (no shit, yes, the american airlines site), delta, orbitz, travelocity (list goes on) and then finally, flood insurance

…and a user searching for “dick cheney” (user 3519380) also went looking for plumpers, used cars, the 700 club (the pathway to porn, right?), and then finally plumpers sex, playboy, anatomy of a murder and assassination’s gate…strange, huh? (oh, and a ford taurus)

yeah, so as you can see this is incredibly important information for government research….

….and in the final battle:

    life = 9388 searches
    death = 4404 searches
    heaven = 1408 searches
    hell = 669 searches (spooooky….turn that nine upside down kids!)
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