AOL recently released a database of AOL users searches and results of keyword searches. A few out there have made some tools you can use to mine the data to see what people were searching for.
When AOL released information on 20 million searches a few were able to create some tools to search the data.
1. Ask the Brain AOL Keyword Search – allows you to search for keyword phrases searched in AOL among the 20 milliions searches with the resulting webpages that the users went to. You can also choose a specific domain and see what searches actually lead people to that website.
2. Don’t Delete AOL Keyword Search Tool – this one is similar to the one above. You can search by keywords and where results went to. You can also expand a keyword here, such as typing ‘seo’ and all ‘seo’ related keyword phrases would appear.
These are some unique tools in the fact that you can actually see which keyword phrases lead a website user to the specific website. It is fun, check them out, but be warned they seem to be getting a lot of traffic so it may be somewhat slow.
The AskTheBrain one is nice and fast.