Business new porn on the net

[sunnysmiles]

Interesting - "porn" searches have declined on the net, now replaced by "business" searches...

The researchers attribute this to more women and children using the net than in the past.

I just think people have probably figured out what their 'favorite' sites are and saved them in their internet 'favorites' folders.

Article 1:
News
Business beats sex
114 words
8 September 2006
Townsville Bulletin
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SEX and pornography have been trounced by business and e-commerce as the most popular internet search topics.

In their mid-90s heyday, sex-related topics accounted for 17 per cent of web searches. That figure has shrunk to an unsexy 3.8 per cent, Queensland University of Technology's Professor Amanda Spinks said yesterday.

Business and commerce-related topics, including buying and selling on the net, now make up 30 per cent of web searches.

Possible reasons for the change included a higher percentage of women users (young, male technogeeks are no longer the main population), and the greater range of available information.


Article 2:
Local
Business new porn on the net
Dorothy Illing, Higher education writer
MATP
205 words
8 September 2006
The Australian
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PEOPLE who feared that sex and pornography on the internet would open the floodgates to moral corruption can relax: the average web surfer is more interested in business.

A study of global trends in how people search the web shows the proportion of queries about sexual material through search engines declined from 17per cent in the mid-1990s to less than 4 per cent last year.

"There was a lot of hype about how the web is all about sex," says one of the researchers, Amanda Spink of Queensland University of Technology.

"When you look at the data, it's not."

Professor Spink and Jim Jansen of Pennsylvania State University in the US were granted access to records from seven companies with public search engines, including AltaVista, Dogpile and Ask.com.

With QUT's Helen Partridge, they analysed between 20 and 30 million search sessions.

"The main thing we found is that the proportion of sex and pornography searches since 1997 has significantly declined as more people started using the web," Professor Spink said.

"They started getting interested in other topics like business, medicine and computing."