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rowan · 09-24-2007, 03:54 PM

More On What Google (and Probably A Lot of Others) Know

Searchblog reader Adam asked me:

1) "Given a list of search terms, can Google produce a list of people
who searched for that term, identified by IP address and/or Google
cookie value?"

2) "Given an IP address or Google cookie value, can Google produce a
list of the terms searched by the user of that IP address or cookie
value?"

I put these to Google. To its credit, it rapidly replied that the answer in both cases is "yes." Just FYI.

http://battellemedia.com/archives/002283.php

AOL released a portion of their search data last year which allows us to see a small trail of search results for individual computers. They pulled the files pretty quickly but they had already been downloaded and put to use by many sites. There are plenty of questionable searches but the important thing is that with a bit of research many can eventually be linked to a specific person.

One example of a questionable trail I found with a quick search:

http://www.aolstalker.com/310068.html

This could be a shared PC, or it could be one guy. Wants to know about bibles verses one minute, then the next day he's looking for topless und*rage and inc*st related photos.

09-24-2007, 03:54 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	More On What Google (and Probably A Lot of Others) Know Searchblog reader Adam asked me: 1) "Given a list of search terms, can Google produce a list of people who searched for that term, identified by IP address and/or Google cookie value?" 2) "Given an IP address or Google cookie value, can Google produce a list of the terms searched by the user of that IP address or cookie value?" I put these to Google. To its credit, it rapidly replied that the answer in both cases is "yes." Just FYI. http://battellemedia.com/archives/002283.php AOL released a portion of their search data last year which allows us to see a small trail of search results for individual computers. They pulled the files pretty quickly but they had already been downloaded and put to use by many sites. There are plenty of questionable searches but the important thing is that with a bit of research many can eventually be linked to a specific person. One example of a questionable trail I found with a quick search: http://www.aolstalker.com/310068.html This could be a shared PC, or it could be one guy. Wants to know about bibles verses one minute, then the next day he's looking for topless undrage and incst related photos.