Porn not the most popular thing on the web

[JJ_BPK]

This is interesting,,

NOT because it's about OZ

NOT because it's about SEX

But because it's about YOU and what you do on the internet..

Everything you do on the internet is tracked by someone..

I could be flippant and say that your internet experience would be 100 times faster without all the snooping going on..

I am more concerned with what happens with the information that's collected..

So should you..

Has anyone looked at the the "Links" sub-page "Who's on-line" and wondered what the Google and Yahoo Slurp Spiders are collecting??

If they can pin-point a city,, they can pin-point a street,, or a individuals IP address...

Read some of the silly statistics,, Have a snicker on me..

Porn not the most popular thing on the web


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...rom=public_rss


DESPITE the old truism, pornography is not the most popular thing on the
internet, according to Google's new search analysis tool.

More Australians use the web to find games than adult content, even in
Queensland where searches for "porn" and "sex" are the most popular.

Comparisons of search terms over time and broken down by region have been
made available on Google's latest data tool Insights, allowing users and
advertisers to see which subjects are in demand and where.

For example, web searches including the terms "art" and "politics" are
popular in the Northern Territory and Tasmania - but only "politics" is of
interest in the ACT, where searches for "art" trail every other region.

The Veronicas saw a spike in interest this month after nude photos allegedly
showing Jess Origliasso surfaced on an adult website, but overall searches
for the band have been in decline since 2006.

Again, web searches for "veronicas" and "nude" were most popular in
Queensland.

Google searches for "news" are most popular in the Northern Territory and
Western Australia, while those for "shoes" usually come from Victoria and
"the beatles" from South Australia.

The top Australian search terms so far this year are: "games", "youtube",
"myspace", "ebay", "google", "facebook", "weather", "hotmail", "yahoo" and
"real estate".

Insights data can also be grouped by area of interest, such as travel or
sports, and compared across countries.

According to Google, the Great Barrier Reef is the most searched-for holiday
spot in Australia by users in the US, UK and Japan, taking out the top three
search terms. It is followed by "ayers rock", "cairns", "tasmania" and "blue
mountains".

Insights data is available for the years 2004 to 2008 and is updated daily.
A Google Australia spokesperson said the company had not censored
adult-themed keywords from the results.

A report from traffic monitoring service HitWise this week revealed almost 9
out of 10 Australians use Google to search the web. The search giant
accounted for 88.14 per cent of searches, with MSN and Yahoo! sharing 10 per
cent, it said.

Interesting things you probably didn't need to know
Slightly more people in Western Australia search for "icecream" as one word
than anywhere else in the country.

Searches for The Ramones are concentrated in South America, and those for
The Sex Pistols in eastern Europe.

Searches for "porn" are most popular in Queensland and New South Wales and
least popular in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.

The only three regions where "news" is a more popular search term than
"porn" are the ACT, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.

Australians and Britons have difficulty spelling the title of the Kama Sutra
properly, while people in the US seem to be on top of it.

Victoria appears to be the state most interested in film, dominating the
searches for "cinema", "cinemas" and "movie".

New South Wales is the only state where more people search for Germaine
Greer than Andrew Bolt.

There weren't enough searches on this reporter's name to come up with any
funny statistics.

Facebook is currently searched for more often in the ACT and NT, while
MySpace dominates everywhere else.

Searches for "scrabulous" are microscopic in comparison to those for
"scrabble", in Australia and everywhere else.

There are more searches for Call Of Duty 4 than Halo 3 in Australia and the
UK, most likely because it is a far superior game.

More people search for Ed Kuepper than Chris Bailey in Australia, and more
people for Chris Bailey in the UK (they're the songwriters from The Saints
who had a falling out - see here).

Australia is leading the world for searches on "purple monkey dishwasher".
I'm not making this stuff up.

The Family Guy is searched for more often the The Simpsons in the US, and
the other way around in Australia.

"Lyrics" was the most searched-for term in Australia in 2004, 2005 and 2006
before mysteriously dropping out of the top ten altogether.

Based on Google Insights data for the years 2004 to 2008.

[Richard]

And just imagine what the stats would be from Google-China!

Richard

[CPTAUSRET]

Originally Posted by Richard

And just imagine what the stats would be from Google-China!

Richard

I'm guessing the ChiCom Govt. is all over that one!

[morolen]

"There are more searches for Call Of Duty 4 than Halo 3 in Australia and the
UK, most likely because it is a far superior game."


so true...so true....

[jw74]

It's not like George Orwell didn't warn us about this sort of thing.

[Surf n Turf]

Originally Posted by jw74

It's not like George Orwell didn't warn us about this sort of thing.

He just had the year wrong

SnT

[MVS2]

Originally Posted by Surf n Turf

He just had the year wrong

SnT

Yep it sucks - can barely read a book review without having to register