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Porn Beats Search Engines in Internet Traffic

Posted by michael on from the porn.slashdot.org-coming-soon dept.

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?"

6 of 291 comments (clear)

  1. I wonder by Nea+Ciupala · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How did they gather their data.

  2. Closer look... by hot_Karls_bad_cavern · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ..they'll take a closer look, decide it's great to tax and regulate and govern and profit from, and then? Oh yeah baby, miles and miles of laws on the books. Funny thing is, they'll do this, but not for say....um, marijuana, wtf?

  3. Adult sites make great benchmarks by chia_monkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously. Given the traffic-intensive nature of adult sites, they have to have some pretty solid servers and such. So when you're testing out a network connection or such, just direct it to an adult site and view a video. You'll be able to see where you're at. These are also good for hosting other types of videos that may be popular on the net at any given time. When all the other news sites and whatnot seem to give mediocre video, see if you can find the same video on an adult oriented site. It will be much higher quality.

    See...adult sites actually CAN be useful. "Yes sir, I understand what this looks like, but I'm really doing research"

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  4. Hi! by autopr0n · · Score: 4, Interesting

    /takes bow

    Actually, my site only pumps out a measly 255 megabytes per day. At least that's what it's been doing recently. Shouldn't be too long before it's up to a terabyte or three. :P

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  5. Re:ARG by slaker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you're looking for a Slashcode-based adult discussion site, try babes.bomis.com. It gets almost no posts, but I'm fairly certain the site gets lots of traffic, for reasons discussed in the subject article.

    There's also Coolio's Babelog (babes.coolios.net) , which is a softcore picture aggregation service that allows discussions. They're always looking for new contributors.

    Yeah, yeah, I'm modding myself down so mods don't have to. But before I go, I'd just like to say the fact that I have "Excellent" karma and mostly post about porn says there might be an interest here. It isn't like trolls don't post smut anyway.

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  6. Re:-yawn- by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From a 2003 interview with Jonathan Coopersmith, author of "Pornography, Technology and Progress"

    BROOKE GLADSTONE: In 1977, the very first pre-recorded videotape to go on sale was pornographic. It took another year for a non-porn tape to hit the market, and how about those clumsy camcorders - those expensive, unreliable, early VCRs. Who bought those? Do-it-yourselfers, says Coopersmith, which explains why even the earliest models had a low-light adjuster.

    JONATHAN COOPERSMITH: If you think about it, there are very few children's birthday parties which are really done with very low levels of light.


    Coopersmith's 1998 paper, sadly, is not illustrated.