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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. Yeah, well... by DrEldarion · · Score: 0, Redundant

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

    That doesn't really tell us much besides how many people searched for sex-related things through a search-engine. Many people nowdays know they'll have much better luck if they use Kazaa/Bittorrent/DC++/etc.

    You can't use Kazaa to buy a microwave, though.

  2. In soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sex searches for YOU!