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Changing Use of Internet?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everything-seems-so-different-now dept.

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?"

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  1. No, it just means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    People have already found their porn and don't need to search for it anymore.

    1. Re:No, it just means by over_exposed · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Twenty percent of all searching was sex-related back in 1997; now it's about 5 percent"

      You're right - it's all been bookmarked :-)

      --
      "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
  2. Sorry, it's me by Spackler · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  3. Signs of the apocalypse by xThinkx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Red Moon appears in the sky

    Boston wins the world series

    INTERNET BEING USED FOR SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE

    Oh dear lord, we're all doomed!

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    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.
    "
  4. Don't we all... by Juvenall · · Score: 5, Funny

    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..

  5. Or.... by PhilipMckrack · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.