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The 7 Ways That People Search the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the seven-stages-of-search dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Moo by Gorm+the+DBA · · Score: -1, Redundant
    You missed:

    The Mathematically Challenged Comedic Failure These posters try to grab karma by hanging onto list posts and posting their own humorous counterpoint list, but fail to realize that 1+1+1+1+1+1 = 6 not 7.

  2. Plug for splunkd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I've been seeing SO MUCH of splunkd advertising on slashdot these days that
    my first thought upon encountering this article was "aha! It's a marketing plug for splunkd!"
    Then I RTFA and the fact that it's a postmortem of the AOL logs toned the thought down a bit (I mean, it _IS_ worthy of a slashdot discussion IMHO ), though its not totally gone.

  3. Re:One, two, three, four, five, six. by TrailerTrash · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is not the fact that there are 6 listed ways to post on /., when 7 were advertised, just an ironic way to demonstrate he's a Fisher?

  4. Re:One, two, three, four, five, six. by Gulthek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd have thought that his UID would clearly put him in the "old timer" category.