Sensible Erection | Who are we (through search)?

Thursday, 10 August 2006

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I spent all night reading the stories told by these searches. I hate AOL for what they've done... but I'm fascinated by what it can tell us.

Peoples search queries/stories in extended (and for you naysayers, I know this site was just posted).

Many preteen nude searches after several queries for bible translations. Eventually devolves into incest, polygamy, & voyeurism.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=454380

Old, lonely, arthritic man looking for fat old female companion. Finally decides to buy a gun.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=734183

Look for "anti-gay", "proudly anti-gay", and "gay" after strings of searches for men.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=187850

A girl is in an abusive relationship, gets pregnant, then an abortion, and struggles with the decision.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=1396707

Girl struggles with early incestual abuse, suicide, STDs, & vulvar cancer... before she turns 16.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=1515830

Dealing with legal aspects of a friend's suidcide, eviction, & lawyers.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=2797847

Wife is trapped in the house doing work for her husband. Look for some very telling queries halfway down.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=642200

The dark side of porn. Perversions abound.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=336865

Stripper looks for plastic surgeons, modeling agencies, divorce lawyers, & school for her children.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=1523578

Man searches for church accepting of his homosexuality & AIDS.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=625552

Probably the worst. Christian woman goes from being worried about genital itch, to yeast infection, to AIDS, then coma, & death.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=843043

[by pshaw@12:09amGMT] [+10 Interesting]

Comments

punchopenpunchclose said @ 12:23am GMT on 10th Aug [Score:1 Underrated]
wow

kylemcBitch said @ 12:27am GMT on 10th Aug
Enough already, please.

I hate AOL for doing this, and I am starting to hate myself because I keep looking.

punchopenpunchclose said @ 12:29am GMT on 10th Aug
Okay, one question: if somebody is trying to look for ILLEGAL child porn, why type something like "illegal child porn" into the search window. Did they not get the face that it was ILLEGAL when that term was presented in thought, in action, AAAAND on the screen?

kylemcBitch said @ 12:30am GMT on 10th Aug [Score:2 Insightful]
This person uses AOL, I doubt they can think that far ahead.

liddlemonkey said @ 1:37am GMT on 10th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
In fairness they are sitting at home (presumably) typing "Child Rape Stories" into their browser so I don't think they are displaying the usual subtlety attributed to internet paedophiles.

I have taken some comfort from the fact that since it became public knowledge that AOL fucked up and let this list out into the public domain this person has been shitting themselves constantly.

cache22 said @ 8:19am GMT on 10th Aug
Usually the people who are breaking the laws on accident are not the ones we need to be worried about.

Narrenschiff said @ 12:32am GMT on 10th Aug
Life fucking sucks.

warmseat said @ 12:35am GMT on 10th Aug [Score:1 Underrated]
That's why god died. Imagine knowing the secret yearns of every single person on this planet...

...just by imagining those of SE members I feel sick to my stomaAAARARGHGR CAKAKCAKKACAKKKKK *vomits*

Cakkafracle said @ 11:03am GMT on 10th Aug
you rang?

Narrenschiff said @ 12:38am GMT on 10th Aug
...masturbation lessons? wtf?

warmseat said @ 12:43am GMT on 10th Aug [Score:3 Insightful]
healing the shame that binds you

Fucking shit. This post is depressing.

benjamander said @ 1:05am GMT on 10th Aug
Nay.

Bodnoirbabe said @ 1:50am GMT on 10th Aug
Hahahaha! GRANNY PORN!

ir8 said @ 4:16am GMT on 10th Aug
And now for a brief interlude.
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=2281868

I'm pretty sure this guy actually sat around thinking, "What if... for some reason my AOL searches got leaked?" then proceeded to search for the most absurd things to pop in his head.

ir8 said @ 4:21am GMT on 10th Aug
The gears don't always work in my head this early.

Here it goes.

v21 said @ 7:50am GMT on 10th Aug
Yeah, I read that one. Is incoherent.

-_- said @ 9:12am GMT on 10th Aug [Score:1 Interesting]
he searches for refrences to himself online rather a bit ... and he gets quite specific.
"joseph wendell johnson jr. 2871 8thave nyny"
anyone want to print out his page there and mail it to him?

perhaps we all should.

let AOL make him rich for his pain BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

mischa said @ 5:04pm GMT on 10th Aug
and the winner is "gays with overbites having sex"

Ted213 said @ 6:22pm GMT on 10th Aug
"old russian nuns for sex" runner up

mischa said @ 4:23am GMT on 10th Aug
AOL is "fucked"
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AOL "is" fucked

buggerlugs said @ 4:54am GMT on 10th Aug
I think the US government will use this as a cornerstone in its reasons why America should become an Orwellian Run state. The fact remains we are animals at heart, bound into a society of norms which are far from normal. Yes its sad to read what folks are looking at but how often looking at those lists did you see websites or searches you've done yourself?

buggerlugs said @ 4:56am GMT on 10th Aug [Score:1 Funny]
AOL needs to be shut down for this shit. Utterly appalling abuse of peoples freedom it is.

ukdollars said @ 5:48am GMT on 10th Aug
Gotta love how mr. dark side of porn in the midst of child rape stories and illegal child porn searches typed in scientology.

cardinal said @ 6:18am GMT on 10th Aug
Who are we (through search)?

We are butt-fucking-naked.

I don't know why but reading these made me want to cry like a school girl. The human condition is fucked.

maryyugo said @ 8:01am GMT on 10th Aug
uh... i missed this somehow: how does anyone correlate the search with the user's real (or even screen) name? didn't they scramble that info? if not, who'd use it, where and how?

headlessfriar said @ 8:30am GMT on 10th Aug
In some of these people did ego surfing, and some even put their own social security numbers in as searches. It's not that the search log has a name attatched, it's that having all the searches of one person grouped together can give clues to the identity of the person. Or at least, that's what one article said. I haven't found anyone, but I have only read a few.

maryyugo said @ 10:56am GMT on 10th Aug
ok, i see. barring the social security number (although that could be anyone's and for any reason) or other specific identifying info, i still don't understand how a specific individual can be identified. has one been? were there consequences?

Rainbow Randolf said @ 3:01pm GMT on 10th Aug
It really isn't possible to do so...the only consequences I can see coming from this is an insinuation of someone doing these searches and the defamation of character that comes afterwards. People could be fired, left by their spouses, left out of wills, ect. Do they deserve it? Maybe. Would their employers/spouses/loved ones/friends have found this out anyways? Probably. Is it an incredible invasion of privacy to those who have done nothing wrong and are just trying to live out their lives in quiet dignity? Absolutely. If you were able to gather up the information of that 16 year old and discover that she was someone you knew but never told you about any of this, would you treat her differently? Definitely.

maryyugo said @ 5:27pm GMT on 10th Aug
thanks. it seems a bit of a tempest out a teapot.

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k0k0peli said @ 8:35am GMT on 10th Aug
I didn't see COWABUNGA MOTHERFUCKER in there anywhere.

liddlemonkey said @ 9:20am GMT on 10th Aug
http://www.aolstalker.com/user.php?uid=91602

This one makes me sad.

YHVH said @ 10:30am GMT on 10th Aug
get more privacy 2006-05-10 19:33:47

13ullet said @ 10:48am GMT on 10th Aug
All of these AOL searches are very good at looking at the mind of the user. I mean if you search for whatever you're thinking about this is a map of a person's conscience for a 3 month time period. You can see how people learn more about a topic how their searches change.

And the other thing, how come I have not heard of this on any major news source past the initial release?

instasis said @ 1:15pm GMT on 10th Aug
what the fuck? so, by looking at some poor wife's aol searches (the one who can't work outside the home)...i learn that I have trichotillomania. I guess. I didn't think of it as being something that would have a name, but man, WEIRD. I think I may have to force myself to stop this shit, since saying "I have trichotillomania" is not something I dig on.

maryyugo said @ 1:42pm GMT on 10th Aug [Score:1 Informative]
trichotillomania = fear of vaginitis odor

Ted213 said @ 6:26pm GMT on 10th Aug
wow....that addicting

antares said @ 2:12am GMT on 11th Aug
http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com

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