Techcrunch notes that the "utter stupidity of this is staggering." Elsewhere, people are calling for a boycott of AOL. Personally, I'm not the least bit surprised. I've been warning people off of AOL for years for various reasons.
Other links: Paradigm shift blog post, Will Video for Food blog post, screen capture of AOL Research site (the actual site is currently down), and, if you want to look at the data yourself, someone has set up a mirror.
The AOL releases 20,000,000 or so search queries by around 500,000 of its users article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
oh my god! aol is at it again! what were they thinking when they released this data? that their customers will send them kisses and hugs? this is what happens when management in these so-called “face-less” corporations has no clue or listens to advice from people with no clue! how tragic,,,
A site where you can search the data is here:
http://www.datablunder.com/logitems/query/