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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?"

2 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?