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What The Internet Is Really For
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Rob - 08:06am on 06/05/2004
The internet is the greatest development in communication and entertainment since the television and the telephone. So what do we use it for the most? Research? News? Communicating for business or personal reasons?

Nope. We use it for porn.

Internet Week - Online porn sites garnered more than three times the visitors of the major search engines combined during the last week in May, a research firm announced Thursday.

According to Hitwise, a Melbourne, Australia-based Web-tracking firm, visits to the top three search sites--Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search--accounted for just 5.5 percent of all Internet site visits during the week ending May 29.
Porn sites, lumped by Hitwise into a category appropriately dubbed "Adult," received 18.8 percent of all Web visits in the same period.

When all search and directory sites--including those such as AskJeeves and MSN.com--are combined, the porn-versus-search skew doesn't look so bad: overall, search engines and directories accounted for 13.8 percent of the total Net visits during the week.


Not that its a bad thing, I guess. Just kind of surprising. I mean, how much porn does a person actually need?
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