Machine Learning (Theory)

8/3/2006

AOL’s data drop

Tags: Announcements, Language, Machine Learning — jl@ 9:03 pm

AOL has released several large search engine related datasets. This looks like a pretty impressive data release, and it is a big opportunity for people everywhere to worry about search engine related learning problems, if they want.

5 Comments to “AOL’s data drop”
  1. Dan says:
    8/6/2006 at 1:34 am

    It seems like they’re probably going to take some of this down (http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dangelo/aol-search-query-logs/)
    so get your copies before it goes away.

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  2. mukesh says:
    8/7/2006 at 7:19 am

    see also “AOL Search Data Shows Users Planning to commit Murder.”

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  3. LT says:
    8/7/2006 at 12:36 pm

    see this AOL apologizes for release of user search data

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  4. jl says:
    8/8/2006 at 8:10 pm

    The New York Times has an article now.

    There is no reasonable debate on the obvious topic here: AOL went to far in releasing this data to the public.

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