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Changing Use of Internet?
CodeHog writes "Wired has an interesting article on the perceived changing use of the Internet. Perceived perhaps because it appears that these findings are based partly on search topics. What's more interesting is what it means to the tech community at large. Could this be a new area of tech jobs, setting up and maintaining ecommerce sites, creating search assisting applications?"
People have already found their porn and don't need to search for it anymore.
Now you can put that four years of school to work at home in your spare time selling and buying stuff on eBay for the russian mafia.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
So, basically.. your telling me that I should drop out of the Computer Science program at my school and pick up a degree in MIS, so I can make crappy webpages the rest of my life?
Paint.NET, a Free Image Editor, with Source Code Available!
That should be internets.
Doods,
Sorry, it was me who cut down on the sex searches and stuff. I'm getting older, and there are more things involved in life now. I know, it's an old excuse to cut down. Wife and kidz will do that to you someday as well. I had figured there was another young rebel behind me, so make sure Libby and Jenna would still get plenty of page hits in seach engines. I thought I passed the torch to some first class deviants. Instead, you search for Biz and TV and crap. You don't deserve the internet.
Spack
Red Moon appears in the sky
Boston wins the world series
INTERNET BEING USED FOR SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE
Oh dear lord, we're all doomed!
Let's get one thing perfectly clear, I did not vote for George W Bush, and I do not endorse what he does or says.
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Translation: They've already got all the free porn. Now they're looking to buy more.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
There's not as many sex searches cause seeing 30 new people a day getting it more than you are gets depressing after awhile.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Look, man, it's over. The crazy tech boom is done. Let it go. Take some management classes or something. You keep this up and we're going to report you to Unemployed Tech Workers Anonymous and organize an intervention for you.
From the Article:
"Remember when cars came out, and people would say, 'Wow, we're going for a ride today!' Now they just go for a ride." Oh yes, how could ANY of us not remember that! Hey, you guys remember the time Lothar was smashing those rocks together and invented fire. Ahh, those were the days..
There you go:
Google search for s3x
Google search for pr0n
In other news, "Internet searches" for the terms in question skyrocketed through the roof today leaving the UPitt and Pennstate researchers puzzled and dismayed. It appears one of the Master's thesis was withdrawn after the event. More at 11.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
At the moment there are too many noises when searching for real sex-related sites, most of them are full of pop-up and nothing useful
I don't know if i'd consider a pop-up "nothing useful" when talking about porn...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Undersexed nerds have gone from 20% of the users in 1997 to 5% today as more and more *regular* people can get computers and connected to the internet.
"Twenty percent of all searching was sex-related back in 1997; now it's about 5 percent,"
Well, easy, I got a girlfiend since '98!
This comment was written using 100% reused electrons.
"Well, thanks to the Internet I'm now bored with sex."
...it just happened about 1,000 years early.
-Fry, A Bicyclops Built For Two
I can remember spending DAYS looking for pictures of topless girls on Splash Mountain. DAYS.
When I found the pictures, I was pretty disappointed...but I probably still jerked off at least once. Boobs are good, almost no matter what.
No reason to lie.
I just searched Google for "green tennis shoes" and found nothing relating to other people who like them! Am I to be alone forever?
the idea of "keywords" and that putting in more keywords only narrows the results without using any operators (AND, OR)
Oh, how I pine for AltaVista in 1997...or was it HotBot?