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.'"

Re:Moo

[raddan]

You forgot The Pedant. By the way, you spelled drool [wikipedia.org] wrong.

Re:Assumptions

[Anonymous Coward]

Or as my one friend put it

'I do not bookmark anything anymore I google for it'

And it was true I have hundreds of bookmarks. He had a few dozen.

So if you are interested in something but bookmark nothing you are going to look obsessive.