AOL accidentally released search logs this week for 500,000 of its customers. The data is anonymized, but you can tell a lot about a person by the words and phrases she searches for. A lot, but not everything.
Take User 2708, for example. Is she a bitter ex-girlfriend, or a bitter ex-girlfriend who enjoys researching her New Hampshire ancestry? Here's a sampling of her search history:
- revenge tactics
- the woman's book of revenge
- dirty tricks for chicks
- how to humiliate someone
- how to get revenge on an old lover
- i hate my ex boyfriend
- how to really make someone hurt for the pain they caused to someone else
- the worst thing to send someone via email
- what can i do to an old lover for revenge
- mean revenge tactics
- death records in hampstead new hampshire
