Bots in the AOL Search Log

Identification of Bots in the AOL Search Log

The following Bots files contain the user IDs of users identified as probable bots using the technique described in the paper “Distinguishing Humans from Bots in Web Search Logs” by Omer Duskin and Dror Feitelson. In addition, the Unclassified files contains IDs of users that were left unidentified. The remaining user IDs (that is, those that are not listed in either file) were classified as most probably human.

DatasetBotsUnclassified
AllBotsFile.txt UnclassifiedFile.txt
01BotsFile01.txt UnclassifiedFile01.txt
02BotsFile02.txt UnclassifiedFile02.txt
03BotsFile03.txt UnclassifiedFile03.txt
04BotsFile04.txt UnclassifiedFile04.txt
05BotsFile05.txt UnclassifiedFile05.txt
06BotsFile06.txt UnclassifiedFile06.txt
07BotsFile07.txt UnclassifiedFile07.txt
08BotsFile08.txt UnclassifiedFile08.txt
09BotsFile09.txt UnclassifiedFile09.txt
10BotsFile10.txt UnclassifiedFile10.txt