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AOL Research Data

AOL released its search data for 3 month, complete with unique Ids for brief amount of time. However it retracted and removed its data from the website after it drew sever criticism from the internet community and privacy folks. This data is valuable gold mine for data miners like me. If you are looking for the files and can’t find them, don’t worry. I am putting links to mirrors where you can download. The cat is already out of the bag and I believe open community. The files is about 500 MB in size but its well worth a copy. Please post any other mirrors you know about.

Cheksum: MD5: 31cd27ce12c3a3f2df62a38050ce4c0a

Alternate Download

[Bittorrent] [439 MB] (no seeds)

Mirrors

File:U500k_README.txt [Description]

File: AOL-Data.tgz

[giant.poly9.com] [439 MB]

[onlinehome.us] [439 MB]

[auraka.org] [439 MB]

[upodcast.be] [439 MB]

[aolsearchlogs.co.uk] [439 MB]

[grubygrub.pinninweb.com] [439 MB]

[open.thedataprojects.com] [439 MB]

[reyreythemonkey.org] [439 MB]

[sexygeeks.be] [439 MB]

[svr2.sirkels.com] [439 MB]

[svr3.sirkels.com] [439 MB]

[atrus.org] [439 MB]

[invisihosting.com] [439 MB]

[aol.6brand.com] [439 MB]

[dasickis.com] [439 MB]

Alex’s MySQL Backup

AMB is a script I wrote to backup all the mysql databases in my server. I will make the script more complex in the future.

Download

Howto

Download the script
Login as root and upload it to your server
Modify the variables in the script
Chmod the script to 775
Chmod your backup directory to 777
run ./amb.sh
add to your cron for nightly dump

Features v 1.0

• Backs up database nighlty (if you run it by cron)
• Keeps an archive of database for seven days
• Compressed Sql file saves you disk space

Can’t beat your competitors in search, have declining revenue? Paranoia about next big thing wiping you out? Well issue threat to the next big thing. You tried lawsuit already, that didn’t work.

How much is this blog worth?

Well according to one estimate $2,258.16.

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This is funny and outright ridiculous.
The original video.