the digest

For some reason, AOL last night released a list of 20+ million searches done by over 500,000 users. Their screen names are replaced by a string of random numbers, but if you analyzed the data you come up with some truly scary results.

For example, user 17556639 most recent searches:

17556639 how to kill your wife
17556639 how to kill your wife
17556639 wife killer
17556639 how to kill a wife
17556639 poop
17556639 dead people
17556639 pictures of dead people
17556639 killed people
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 dead pictures
17556639 murder photo
17556639 steak and cheese
17556639 photo of death
17556639 photo of death
17556639 death
17556639 dead people photos
17556639 photo of dead people
17556639 www.murderdpeople.com
17556639 decapatated photos
17556639 decapatated photos
17556639 car crashes3
17556639 car crashes3
17556639 car crash photo

The shit is going to hit the fan here big time, I don't know what AOL was thinking. This is the kind of information that Google fought succesfully against the government to keep private.

See more here. (yes, a blog linking to a blog, albeit a much more popular one).