The 7 Ways That People Search the Web

SpaceAdmiral writes "After the recent release of AOL search logs, Paul Boutin used the site splunkd.com to analyse the logs. His analysis groups searchers into seven categories: The Pornhound, the Manhunter, the Shopper, the Obsessive, the Omnivore, the Newbie, and the Basketcase. My favorite example search is in the Basketcase category: 'i hurt when i think too much i love roadtrips i hate my weight i fear being alone for the rest of my life.'"

Comments

Re:They missed out the Googler

[firpecmox]

Dont be mean to AOL after all how is a person supposed to know if they have mail without what sounds like a person that sounds like they should be on the public sex offender list telling us?

I bet I'm a basketcase

[quantum bit]

Based on some of the wacky and random things that have gotten sent to google by me. Mostly happens when I'm trying to middle click on a link to open it in a new tab, accidentally miss and end up activating that stupid middle click search thing that tries to find whatever was selected last.

Finally found the pref to kill that but it was annoying as hell.

Number seven

[jpardey]

The Bitcher: Will endlessly complain about minor things. May add to a discussion, but in the wrong thread, so as to whore karma multiple ways.