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.
Anyone figured out the AOL search engine encoding yet?
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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.Comment

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