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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. Sigh... another flawed research article by VE3ECM · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "'Twenty percent of all searching was sex-related back in 1997; now it's about 5 percent,' said Amanda Spink, the University of Pittsburgh professor who co-authored Web Search...."

    Hello? Of course it's dropped: most people don't use search engines for pr0n anymore. They use P2P!!!!

    I wonder how much of a percentage increase there's been in P2P search terms?