If you don’t know about AOL Gate, you’ve been gone a long time. Well, the good news is that a number of searchable AOL Data databases have been released, each with its own set of unique features. This post attempts to categorize them all!

Databases:

AOL Psych is a collaborative project to tag the AOL user data. Sometimes slow, it’s the most elaborate AOL search device I’ve seen so far–and by far the prettiest:

AOL Search Logs is a basic, but full featured index to AOL data, with basic features like comments. It doesn’t allow easy browsing or searching, but it has the right basic features to make it (barely) usable.

Splunk’d mirrors exist of the AOL data–however powerful they may be, the interface has a steep learning curve for a non-splunk user. However, Splunk may be the most powerful, as it allows wildcarding and other advanced search features:

Other less useful tools:

• Don’t Delete search interface
• AOL Search Database

SEO Tools:

The AOL Site Incoming Keyword Tool takes a URL and tells you how people got there–quite useful for research purposes:

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6 Responses to “AOL Search Data Tools List”

1. max says:

   8/15/2006 at 8:51 am

   I have added a nice feature to AOLpsycho.com: query permalink. Now you can point to particular query of AOL user, eg http://www.aolpsycho.com/user/12061943#121

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2. ashusta's I.S. life says:

   8/26/2006 at 7:42 pm

   Playing with the AOL Data…

   Like every other geek out there, I’ve been playing around with the recently released AOL search data. But unlike many other people, I’m not searching for particularly onerous individuals or amusing search patterns. Rather, I’ve been creating toy dat…

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3. AOL Search Data Tools List by Elliott Back at go. says:

   9/4/2006 at 12:09 pm

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4. whatever says:

   9/8/2006 at 4:56 am

   aolstalker.com is really sweet.. ajaxy and all.

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5. Florian says:

   9/13/2006 at 7:19 pm

   I’ve put together a tool that show CTR data by rank and by page. Check it out: http://www.sempunch.com/aol-searches/

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6. mastershake says:

   9/25/2006 at 10:20 pm

   get the data here:
   http://mysite.verizon.net/laurin99/aol.htm

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