AOL Screw up the internet

BopNiblets

This is hilariously stupid and terrifyingly worrying at the same time... :eek: :mad:

Serbian

Saw this alright. Some pretty sad results in there:

418887 25 years old never had a girlfriend
418887 how to be a convincing liar
418887 socially incompetent
418887 hypnosis self esteem
418887 escort service
418887 saints to pray to
418887 hotornot.com

Ruu_Old

I thought AOHell were pretty much in shiet for sometime now but if that won't do it then nothing will. Silly, very silly. *boggle*

BopNiblets

Serbian: Haha, hotornot.com
The "how to kill your wife" ones were a bit disturbing too.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

is it worth the download and hard disk space?

ntlbell

Serbian wrote:

Saw this alright. Some pretty sad results in there:

418887 25 years old never had a girlfriend
418887 how to be a convincing liar
418887 socially incompetent
418887 hypnosis self esteem
418887 escort service
418887 saints to pray to
418887 hotornot.com

Just looks like a normal day in Personal Issues

JohnK

sean_keevey wrote:

is it worth the download and hard disk space?

I'm getting it anyway. Who knows what fun stuff you might find

Thomas_S_Hunterson

JohnK wrote:

I'm getting it anyway. Who knows what fun stuff you might find

/me sighs and clicks link

Serbian

Oh wow, there really is some seriously messed up stuff in there, stuff you couldn't post on this board! You can read a lot of it on SomethingAwful.com if you aren't too sensitive.

JohnK

You have to have an account to read that link . Go on, tell us whats there

DonkeyRhubarb

BOOOOM!

Thats what I see with this information. Im completly confused and bewildered; among so many other things.

Its crazy. Im agreeing and disagreeing with myself in the same moment.

Gotta download it though:p

Dooom

ntlbell wrote:

Just looks like a normal day in Personal Issues

roffle

SeanW

I'm downloading it now ... Yes AOL is truly lame and I've always urged my U.S. friends and relatives to ditch it ... gonna tell them about THIS

Anti

Seems it wont load now, but anyway you may or maynot know this. But i heard rumours that BskyB are looking into buying out AOL. Dont kill me if this is old news but my gf came home from work ( aol ) yesterday and i actually listened to her about work when she came home. And that is what i heard.

aidan_walsh

There have been rumours of Time Warner selling various parts of AOL for a few years now and nothing has come of it yet. Wouldn't pay too much attention just yet.

DonkeyRhubarb

I never thought a text file would bring my computere to its knees!!!

If your downloading this, make sure you have LOADS of RAM!!!

It took 2 mins just to do a word wrap, LOL!!!

JohnK

To be fair, it does have around 20 million records . I'm just going to dump it into SQL Server and see how that handles it

DonkeyRhubarb

Does anyone know the best program to open this with? In Notepad, its a mass jumble of information with very little format whatsoever.

Any tips on how to view it properly?

JohnK

I'd try WordPad since NotePad doesnt always format a document as it should. You'd be much better off trying to suck it into a database of some sort. Excel might be worth a try if you have nothing else.

Hobbes

You dont need to download. You can now search it online.

http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com/

There was an interesting one about a guy having numerous searches to how to kill his wife.

DonkeyRhubarb

Looks OK in Access. Just doesnt show ALL the records.

Does anyone have a link to a free version of an SQL database?

DonkeyRhubarb

I did a scan of this database.

Got a name and a location in one single search.

Put it into google and got his phone number in the directory.

This is how dangerous this database can be!!! :mad:

(Im glad Im a die-hard googler!!!)

JohnK

DonkeyRhubarb wrote:

I did a scan of this database.

Got a name and a location in one single search.

Put it into google and got his phone number in the directory.

This is how dangerous this database can be!!! :mad:

(Im glad Im a die-hard googler!!!)

Just hope that google never **** up like this

SeanW

Google does sell aggregate search information, but to be eligable, a search term has to be used many, many times, over a certain threshold. I don't think they go this far though.