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Porn Beats Search Engines in Internet Traffic
zamboni1138 writes "A just published Reuters story claims almost 20% of all U.S. web traffic is categorized as 'adult'. While some of it is just of an adult nature, most of it is probably porn. Search engines get about 5.5%, Google being about half of that. This should surprise no one given the bandwidth intensive nature of online porn. Of course this is only the research of one company over a one week period. Is this one of the reasons why the US DOJ recently announced it is going to be taking a closer look at the porn industry?"
Will the slashdot user "autopr0n" please step forward? Ah, yes.
Sir, please take a bow.
What's next? Water is wet! Film at 11.
"If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone."
~Epictetus
Is this one of the reasons why the US DOJ recently announced it is going to be taking a closer look at the porn industry?
Nope, they just like to get paid watching porn like the rest of the world.
I only read slash. for the articles...
I bet one MILLION dollars...
I bet one BILLION dollars that spam out does porn.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
Geek: I invented a program that downloads porn off the internet one million times faster.
:drools: One million times...
Marge: Does anyone need that much porno?
Homer:
Is to imagine a company that plays follow the leader (oh, I don't know.. Microsoft?) jump on the porn web site bandwagon.
That is scarier than it looks, because think about the aftermath: geeks playing follow the leader with Microsoft (oh, I don't know) and making their own open-source, free porn web site to compete with Microsoft.
Finally, open source wins.
Cover your eyes and click this link!
Usually it's other people beating things to porn.
From my warm, sticky, hand.
...spam that takes you to a porn site when opened, whether you wanted to go there or not?
>Of course this is only the research of one company over a one week period.
And using only one hand, no less.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
"Is this one of the reasons why the US DOJ recently announced it is going to be taking a closer look at the porn industry?"
Dream job.. DOJ.. all day "taking closer looks at the porn industry"..
Gathering Data. Now there's a nice euphemism for sucking down porn.
Yea right, try to sneak one by us.
Here's to you, Mr. Porn site visitor
John: So you're saying that the renewed strength of the technology sector is leading the new job growth?
m . That's some nasty stuff.
Steve: Not exactly, John. Most of these 280,000 jobs are in the one type of internet business that actually makes money.
John: You mean so-called "portals", like Google.
Steve: You're thinking in the past John. Search engines are so 90s. The future is in net porn.
John: Net porn is driving the new jobs growth?
Steve: That's right, John. If present trends continue, by the year 2006, online adult entertainment will constitute 275% of the US economy, and 1,250% of our exports.
John: That's impossible, by definition it couldn't be more than 100% of-
Steve: Fine, John, we'll use your numbers.
Steve: By the year 2006, internet porn will constitute 100% of the US economy.
John: That still seems unlikely.
Steve: No manufacturing or services of any kind! Every man, woman and, yes, child, will be sucking and fucking in front of a digital camera 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.
John: Full Employment is good, but-
Steve: The only threat to continued job growth: Pets. Fido will have sex on camera for free. Oh... and, Allen Greenspan's Dominatrix might tell him to raise interest rates.
John: Wh-Wh-What about our culture generally, music, other forms of art?
Steven: Have you *seen* any music videos lately? Anyway, not to worry - sex crazed americans will still be able to get the news - from www.johnstewartreadsthenewswearingnippleclamps.co
Steven: John.
John: Thank you steven.
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I'm trying to see if I can get the cadence and word choice right so that it reads like it was written by the people who actually do the show. How'd I do?
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Does it seem to anyone else that there's a lot more posters than usual posting as an Anonymous Coward on this story? I wonder why...? Come on, spank monkeys, post proud!
Ashcroft thinks he is a Patriot and a Christian, but he will be stopped outside the Pearly Gates.
Jesus will hold his arms while Sam Adams punches him.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Like the parent said: porn.
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You misspelled meat.
US DOJ recently announced it is going to be taking a closer look at the porn industry?"
How close of a look are they going to take? Do they need volunteers to help with this "investigation"?
...I've renamed "Internet Explorer" to "Teh Pr0n Surfar!!!1!"
Yeah - I'm sure the department of justice is "taking a closer look" for the sake of law and morality. I'm sure it's not at ALL because Ashcroft wants to use American tax dollars to fuel his wildly expensive bukkake and dirty sanchez video habit. Makes you wonder what the d.o.j. REALLY means when they talk about "patrolling our borders."
...can coexist, fortunately.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
I'm sure they also expelled a lot of data during this research.
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I would like to go to work for the DOJ so I can spend all day looking at porn while getting paid for it.
As opposed to spending all day looking at porn and not getting paid to do it.
D00d - you rock!
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Thanks for the mammories
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Actually, my site only pumps out a measly 255 megabytes per day... Well buddy, it's gonna be pumping out a lot more today! It just gives me warm fuzzies to watch someone Slashdot themselves.. :)
If the DOJ wants to take a closer look at online porn, all they need is all the laptops over at the CIA.
Wait a minute! There's pornography on the INTERNET?
You could always start your own porn site :)
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I worked at a co-lo where all the NOC crew got pins at a meeting that said "H.I.P."
So all of us said "What is H.I.P.?"
To that our manager replied " Honor, Integrity, and Pride."
It quickly became known as "Honor In Porn" because over half of our clients and maybe most of our bandwith (2Gbps+) was taken up by porn sites.
I may be bad with names, but I'll never forget your IP address
Hmmm... reminds me of a Dilbert comic from a while ago...
Wally (to boss in meeting): I need to to test our system by downloading as many large files as possible from the busiest servers I can find on the web.
Wally (to Dilbert after meeting): Damn. I came this close to making it my job to surf for porn.
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Pornsite
Search is Number Two Bandwidth Hog - Porn is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founder
Dyslexics have more fnu.
We're all gonna be pumping out a lot more today...
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak