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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?"
Those other people went to booble.
Well, the Reuters article says this study came from a company called Hitwise. So, let's see what they have to say.
Hmm, it looks like they've got a FAQ that gives a decent amount of information on their tracking methodology and seems to answer most of your questions. They seem to use a variety of sites and ISPs for tracking, though they're very vague as to what. The link also says that they are, in fact, using standardized definitions for the terms you mention, and they're the definitions given in "the industry standard definitions published by the US Internet Advertising Bureau's Media Measurement Task Force on 'Metrics and Methodology'". I'm not sure where to get these definitions, they aren't immediately turning up on a google search.
Still, that should be enough to give you a good start.
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Why the hell would anyone use IE to surf porn sites? Nevermind the fact that Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox surf faster (in my experience, anway) and has popup blocking enabled by default--porn sites (especially ones that have tons of popups) are some of the most malicious websites out there. Not to mention the fact that Firefox has a few nifty spider extentions that can automatically save all of the images for you...
This story reminded met of this article that is hosted a new pr0n search engine that I never visit. Believe me. This one might actually be a future threat to Google, it is that good! (although it's still in beta).
It went down for a while when my server died. I was too busy with finals and final projects to do anything about it for way to long. The site is back up now on a new host (without the pesky bandwidth restrictions of the previous location) and has been for about a month or so.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You've just been visiting the wrong porn sites. If you just search for "porn" on google, you'll get a bunch of crap. In addition to my own site there are a couple good TGPs that have strict anti-popup rules. Before AP, my favorites were the hun and asianthumbs
But really, you should get a popup blocker. Google toolbar does it, as does mozilla, and most other non-sucky browsers.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Except for those pesky counter-intuitive feedback loops:
Seriously reducing Testosterone over a long therm also tends to make males flabby and reduce muscular mass, unless it's done by a calculated combination of physical and mental stress (as in basic training), thereby often decreasing the male's chance of attracting a partner. Without an appropriate other (not necessarily significant, although personally, I'm picky), they have to use their remaining sex drive solo, therefore requiring more porn.
Who is John Cabal?
Like anything teh intarweb else the online porn world is full of a lot of crap. If you're willing to pay for good stuff, I'd recommend the hegre archives or the vulis archives. (yes, those are affiliate links :P).
As far as free stuff, a lot of it can suck. Especially if you just google "porn" or something. The good stuff is out there, you just need to know where to look. But many in this "community" (if you want to call it that) seem to think of traffic as a commodity that they can buy and sell. Most of the sites you see aren't selling porn, they're selling traffic. Namely, you. That's why you see so many pop-ups, garbage, and other crap. Not to mention tons of misleading links or whatnot. It wouldn't surprise me if the "passwords" you got were actually put out there by people trying to get you to sign up for a "real" account. That seems to be pretty common these days.
But yeah, for the most part the online porn world is festering along with the rest of the net, with spam and crap. These people are really "overgrazing the commons" They get lots of hits now, but in the end they alienate so many people who know consider online porn to be basically the same thing as spam. They may make more for themselves, but damage the industry overall.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I don't make any money off the "daily pr0n" links to galleries, only the "paysites" links at the bottom of the page.
:P
A couple of pay sites have "hosted galleries" that people can submit to TGPs without doing the work themselves, and I've linked to some of those with my own ID. However, I've never made a dime off of it. Autopr0n is not a big website. Analog doesn't track unique users, but his to the main page (rather then the framing and redirect pages) total about 3-4k per day. Autopr0n makes about $50-$60 a month, which is just barely enough to cover the bandwidth bill.
I'm hoping that my traffic will go up (The current connection can deal with 10-20 times the traffic before I need to upgrade, which could mean $500-$1000 a month), and since I've moved the server, it has been steadily from about 2000 hits per day after the downtime to 4000 today. It used to be I could only handle 3k hits per day, or 200mb. Now I'm serving out 4k hits/day and about 255mb/day.
So yeah, It's not making much money now, but I'm hopping that it'll grow fast enough to be able to pay for rent and food after I graduate in August
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
One person caught AIDS, and I think maybe 4 or 5 other people ended up catching it as well.
But what you forgot to mention was that the entire porn industry stopped production for a month, so that every single actor and actress could be tested and re-tested to make sure that the "outbreak" was contained. There were only about 40 people who could possibly have been infected in the time before that guy got back from brazil and production stopped. And it's actually very unlikely to get aids from a single sexual encounter.
AIDS rates in porn are much lower then for the general population. It doesn't make any sense for the DOJ to be going after these people over that, particularly given that the DOJ's announcement hit before this the outbreak.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
What always amazed me was those hosting providers who won't allow adult content, until I figured out their racket. Basically they know a lot of people will buy bandwidth for projects and whatnot, and then never actually use it (I've certainly done that). But with adult content, everyone knows it's not that hard find people to give it too, and so the system breaks down (at least for the really cheap providers)
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.