Finally the Media has balls to admit it "Adult is still the most searched"
 

For years noone would say this, although for many it was obvious.



http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/04/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

Porn 3X more popular than searches
Tracking firm finds that 18.8% of U.S. Web visits were to 'adult' sites, 5.5% to top search engines.
June 4, 2004: 4:18 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online porn sites get about three times more visits than the top Web search engines, including market leader Google Inc., a research firm said Thursday.

Web sites categorized as "adult" accounted for about 18.8 percent of all Internet visits by U.S. users in the week ending May 29.

Meanwhile, the category that contains search engines dominated by Yahoo, MSN and Google, accounted for about 5.5 percent, according to Hitwise Inc., a California-based company that tracks Web use.

During that time, Google garnered 2.7 percent of all Web visits while Yahoo Search and MSN Search received 1.7 percent and 1.1 percent respectively, Bill Tancer, vice president of research at Hitwise, told Reuters.

Other large Hitwise categories include "Entertainment" at 8.0 percent, "Business and Finance" at 7.4 percent and "Shopping and Classifieds" at 7 percent.

Google is moving toward an initial public offering that is expected to be a blockbuster.

The three leading search providers fall into a subcategory Hitwise calls "Search Engines and Directories," which covers 1,944 Web search and directory sites, which were not included in the top search category.

The subcategory, which accounted for 13.8 percent of all Internet visits, also includes AskJeeves.com, Yahoo.com and Microsoft's MSN.com. Yahoo.com is not included in the search category, but its search function is.

"Search Engines and Directories," along with the "Email Services," "Net Communities and Chat," "Software" and other subcategories, make up Hitwise's "Computers and Internet" category that pulled in almost one-third of all visits.

In a separate report published late last month, Hitwise said that between August and April, Google remained the most visited search site and was alone among the three sector players in gaining market share within its subcategory.

Hitwise also found that fast-growing comparison shopping sites such as Shopping.com, NexTag and Bizrate are getting fewer referrals from Web search providers -- meaning that users are either going directly to the niche sites or finding other routes to them, thereby cutting search engines out of lucrative shopping clicks.

The same appears to be true for top travel sites, Tancer said.

Actually, it looks like it's just saying that the "adult sites" category gets more hits than the "search engine" category. It doesn't really say it's from search engines. It's not clear about how the people are getting to the sites but it sounds like it's from other avenues besides SEs. They've still gotta be the most searched terms, though. I can't imagine what would top it.

yeah, i think it was more hits then search engines

Took them long enough.

Interesting reading thanks:thumbsup

Yes, good article :)

Yep, intresting article

Good to hear that - so there is still some money left :)

Just a bit, if you know how to get it.

With all this traffic do you really think Bush will try to close it down? He's stupid but not that stupid.

Sex sells.. no surprise there. :)

They got over their hypocrisy...or they just can't go on denying they kinda like it too...

its no surprise that pornsites gets visited often. but the surprise lies in the fcat that media admitted it.

more stuffs like this should come out.

The Net was built for Porn. You think all the scientists connected on the original DARPA Net were just trading mathematical formulas back and forth?

:) :1orglaugh

not only is this quote perfect... but the stories I have heard amazes me to this day :glugglug

Those are old news, I mean everyody knew that but nobody wanted to admit about the power and importance of the adult business and volume of search on the internet.

The thing that make bussines here is the adult thing.

Samuel

That doesnt surprise me

just what I needed.

:glugglug

I wonder how many people are logging on to the net daily. Last time someone on here said it was around 500 million I think.

Porn has got to be the most searched thing on the net. There's nothing else of more interest to people really...