Anyone figured out the AOL search engine encoding yet? - GoFuckYourself.com

Tempest · 01-10-2008, 10:06 PM

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 · 01-10-2008, 10:07 PM

bump wana hear more

OzMan · 01-11-2008, 11:49 AM

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.

OzMan · 01-11-2008, 11:54 AM

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

01-10-2008, 10:06 PM	#1
Tempest Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: West Coast, Canada. Posts: 10,217	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.

01-11-2008, 11:49 AM	#3
OzMan Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Los Begas Posts: 9,162	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 at 11:52 AM..

01-10-2008, 10:07 PM	#2
joeman1 So Fucking Banned Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 321	bump wana hear more

01-11-2008, 11:54 AM	#4
OzMan Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Los Begas Posts: 9,162	I took the link out as it linked to another board but just google "encquery="