Anyone figured out the AOL search engine encoding yet?

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  • Tempest
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • May 2004
    • 10217

    #1

    Anyone figured out the AOL search engine encoding yet?

    I've got over 400 of them DB'd but am tired of doing the reverse look up for new ones all the time.. Shouldn't be "too" difficult to figure out, I just haven't had the time... It's consistent.. eg: if a search term starts with 'massive ', all the encodings start with '0cf98239e682aba4'... The encoding is in 8 byte blocks.. So any search terms 8 characters or less use 8 bytes.. 9-16 characters, 16 bytes etc.
  • joeman1
    So Fucking Banned
    • Aug 2007
    • 321

    #2
    bump wana hear more

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    • OzMan
      Confirmed User
      • Sep 2003
      • 9162

      #3
      I was looking at this a while ago. Seems it was done to prevent adware hijacking PPC clicks.

      As far as I could tell, nobody's figured out the encryption but in case you haven't seen it yet the link below offers solutions in C++ and PHP to "automate" the parsing of logs to extract the keywords.
      Last edited by OzMan; 01-11-2008, 09:52 AM.

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      • OzMan
        Confirmed User
        • Sep 2003
        • 9162

        #4
        I took the link out as it linked to another board but just google "encquery="

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