I think that this person...is crazy, maybe homeless. He seems to be talking to himself via AOL search, asking questions and answering them.
This is a fascinating read, but it's also a sad window into this person's damaged mind.
Another site has a good analysis of this one:
I highly doubt someone was actually sitting at their desk typing this stuff in. I've parsed out only the date/time stamps, and they are entered methodically every 30 seconds or so, give or take, for continuous stretches lasting several hours.
(source):http://www.lot49.com/2006/08/the_search_engine_diary_of_aol.shtml
This really sounds like an IM conversation.
This is the absolute craziest search I've seen so far.
I think something else is going on here, though I'd have no idea how and why...
I have a hypothesis for this one:
Some sort of undercover work. One side of an IM conversation is being logged (why not both sides?.) There is use of a covert channel to log this conversation. The trojan program on this person's computer causes searches to AOL search every 30 seconds during the day. The AOL cookie is copied on the trojan planter's computer and he can log in and check what the person searched for in the last 30 days using AOL's personalized search logging. The person being logged does not otherwise use AOL search.
There has been speculation that this conversation involves organized crime and General Motors in Detroit. It seems there is definitely something illegal going on here!
My take on what has to be the most disturbing of all the AOL Psycho entries: This man (I'd have named him Hey Joe since there's an unnerving connection somehow to that old Jimi Hendrix song, or else Lawnmower Man as he seems to be, well, a lawnmower man, and if you saw that film you'll see a LOT of parallels here) is:
- somewhat dissociative/MPD as occasionally he refers to self as someone else
- seems to be talking both to self and to some other entity (God, the Internet, the AOL Robot Therapist?)
- in my humble opinion most definitely murdered at least two or three people
- spends a lot of time cutting people's grass, it's probably how he gets by
- is not necessarily homeless, in fact, I doubt very much he was when this disturbing routine was going on, as it seemed to be rather constant, so he'd have had to have access to a computer for pretty much a whole month and there's no break in it as would have happened if it was someone ELSE'S computer and AOL account being used