12% of the websites on the internet are pornographic

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Interesting infographic about the pornographic web:

#12% #internet #pornographic #websites
  • Profile picture of the author Wide
    Nothing new in the search amount of porn.
    However, 12% of all websites is porn... no way, not even close.

    All or most of those numbers is way to high, it's used for politics or own profit to promote a service or idea.
    It's the same people that want to ban everything related to porn or nudity.
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    • Profile picture of the author jazbo
      I would say that 12% is to low personally.

      Originally Posted by Wide View Post

      Nothing new in the search amount of porn.
      However, 12% of all websites is porn... no way, not even close.

      All or most of those numbers is way to high, it's used for politics or own profit to promote a service or idea.
      It's the same people that want to ban everything related to porn or nudity.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
      "The average porn site visit lasts 6 minutes and 29 seconds."

      Yea right, they're either braggarts or they're on dial up.

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      • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
        Originally Posted by Bill Farnham View Post

        "The average porn site visit lasts 6 minutes and 29 seconds."

        Yea right, they're either braggarts or they're on dial up.

        ~Bill
        This one goes to my Wall of Fame.

        :p

        Seriously, JUST 12%? I imagined to be more, considering everybody and their uncle watches porn online.
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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    For years, sex was the #1 search phrase. I think most search engines stopped reporting that sex was the number 1 phrase, just so other phrases could move up.

    Unless you live on mars, sex is one of the most important driving forces in our lives.

    I think reports like the one listed above just help us realize how important it is in our lives.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bicycle Cat
    Only 12%? I thought it would be around 95%....
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    • Profile picture of the author Meemo
      Originally Posted by Bicycle Cat View Post

      Only 12%? I thought it would be around 95%....
      ha ha I was thinking the same thing...
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  • Profile picture of the author Biggy Fat
    "There are 116,000 searches for "child pornography" everyday."

    Not according to the GAKT, where there are 201,000 broad searches a month, 18,000 exact searches a month. :p

    "Utah has the nation's highest online porn subscription rate per thousand home broadband users."

    I have to disagree with this. Utah is a relatively clean state with not many horny people haha. This distinction will easily go to California.

    "The average age where a child first sees porn online is 11."

    Again, this is wrong. Even prepubescent children can type in sex related terms on the computer and stumble onto porn.

    Nonetheless, cool facts LOL.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mr. Subtle
      Originally Posted by Biggy Fat View Post

      "Utah has the nation's highest online porn subscription rate per thousand home broadband users."

      I have to disagree with this. Utah is a relatively clean state with not many horny people haha. This distinction will easily go to California.
      I'm always amazed when some here disagree with a factoid the only evidence they can come up for their point is their "gut" feeling. The above factoid came from the following paper (Google the title for a PDF):

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      • Profile picture of the author abednego
        For those who don't think Google censors, try searching for a contraversial term on google.cn when it'll be back

        (and I'm sure that it'll be back soon since China is rich and Google needs money)

        Originally Posted by Mr. Subtle View Post

        I'm always amazed when some here disagree with a factoid the only evidence they can come up for their point is their "gut" feeling. The above factoid came from the following paper (Google the title for a PDF):
        That figure surprised me the most. Especially coming from a state where you need a special ID to show you're not mormon to drink .......
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    Not according to the GAKT, where there are 201,000 broad searches a month, 18,000 exact searches a month.
    Google is not the only search engine. GAKT is only good for google search traffic.

    "Utah has the nation's highest online porn subscription rate per thousand home broadband users."

    I have to disagree with this. Utah is a relatively clean state with not many horny people haha. This distinction will easily go to California.
    My own stats would show that in fact, Utah, Texas and the bible belt states do bring the largest amount of porn traffic. People in California have sex, they don't need as much porn, they just make it. Utah isn't clean, it's a hypocrite state. Red states = porn surfers, blue states = people having casual sex.

    "The average age where a child first sees porn online is 11."

    Again, this is wrong. Even prepubescent children can type in sex related terms on the computer and stumble onto porn.
    Average age. Please read before commenting.
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    • Profile picture of the author Meemo
      Originally Posted by jasonmorgan View Post

      "The average age where a child first sees porn online is 11."
      I guess with all the poop ups and different ways to access it this doesnt surprise me
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      • Profile picture of the author GameVoid
        12% of the websites on the internet are pornographic
        The rest is just wasted.

        If the term child pornography is so big, why the hell doesnt google and the other search engines block results for that?
        Because there are legitimate reasons to search the phrase "child pornography" that don't involve actually looking for "child pornography".
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    • Profile picture of the author Biggy Fat
      Originally Posted by jasonmorgan View Post

      Average age. Please read before commenting.
      I did read, and 11 isn't the average age. It's much lower than that.
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      • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
        Originally Posted by Biggy Fat View Post

        I did read, and 11 isn't the average age. It's much lower than that.
        According to who? You?

        You're injecting your own biases and beliefs.

        You have done a poll yourself or can reference a reputable source that states that 11 isn't the average age?
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        • Profile picture of the author Biggy Fat
          Originally Posted by jasonmorgan View Post

          According to who? You?

          You're injecting your own biases and beliefs.

          You have done a poll yourself or can reference a reputable source that states that 11 isn't the average age?
          Common sense, man. No need to start an argument here. I know I'm right, prove me wrong.
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          • Profile picture of the author butters
            Originally Posted by Biggy Fat View Post

            I know I'm right, prove me wrong.
            That not how it works... If you make a statement your meant to provide some sort of facts to back up that statement, if you don't, it's called a guess...
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
        Originally Posted by Biggy Fat View Post

        I did read, and 11 isn't the average age. It's much lower than that.
        You are confusing the ability to enter sex related terms into a search engine with the idea of an AVERAGE.

        If we have 3 people and one is 60, the other is 50 and the other is 10, and all three see porn, the AVERAGE age is 40, not 10.

        Not enough proof? No problem.

        The statistic doesn't say "THE youngest age at which people see porn online", it says "The AVERAGE age..."

        What % of people in this country are OVER the age of 11?

        No need to guess, the CIA Factbook (via way of Wikipedia) tells us...

        20.2% are 0 to 14 years old. It's safe to assume that a decent amount of that group are too young to spell, use a computer, OR have ANY desire to see OR comprehend such things. And another portion of this group are OVER 11.

        67% are 15 to 64 years old. They clearly RAISE the average.

        12.8 are 65 or older. While they may not be thought of as the most computer savvy, plenty of them use computers regualry and could further RAISE the average.

        There are other factors to consider. Such as how relatively new computers are to daily life.

        All of that being said, I think the average age is a bit on the low side and may be a bit higher. However, at least I am basing that on something factual instead of pulling it out of thin air because I don't understand basic mathematical concepts like AVERAGES.



        Anyway...

        12%???

        Sounds like a challenge to me!



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  • Profile picture of the author oldwarrioruser1
    I watch porn weekly with my girlfriend..

    Is that a bad thing?

    NO it's not, because 70% OF PEOPLE MY AGE DO IT!
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  • Profile picture of the author Damien Roche
    OMG who cares about the figures. We're discussing porn
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  • Profile picture of the author jacksonlin
    Hooray for the porn industry!

    If it wasn't for porno, the internet wouldn't be as advanced as it is now.

    Think about the payment processing, the streaming requirements so you can download pornos faster, the security in place so you don't get scammed.

    All these online advancements were pioneered by the porno and gambling industry!

    I'm going to play poker and watch some porno now. =P
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  • Profile picture of the author bkilela
    I guess this explains why programmers capitalise on human vice "greed" as a motivator for the other products in the net.

    Most people want to have what they know is not rightfully theirs

    The 12% number is too low in my view.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    I've heard from a number of web programmers that most innovations in web media come from the porn industry.
    Porn was an early player and innovator but it's not really the trendsetter that it once was. You'll find porn is following in the footsteps of sites like youtube and facebook now.

    I do think that many Adult affiliate programs put most mainstream programs to shame with the amount of tools they have to offer and their desire to actually help affiliates become successful.
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  • Profile picture of the author IRichie
    I think, 12% is a big figure. It should be around 4-6%. May be I am guessing too low, but I think 12% is still a higher amount.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bruce Wedding
      Originally Posted by Joseph Then View Post

      OK, so who's living in Utah?
      The Mormons.

      This is the state that has very few bars, no strip clubs and everything is closed on Sunday. No wonder they're all seeking porn.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    Really? That may be, I'm not an expert. I recently heard that the instantly generated thumbs that pop-up when you hover over a player time line came from the porn industry, but possibly not. I don't think YouTube is using it yet.
    I'm not sure who came up with those. I know most (probably all) of the big porn tubes have those. It's pretty cool, getting a quick couple of frames preview of a video before watching it.

    I'm not saying porn isn't innovative in it's own right but since so much online money has shifted to the mainstream world a lot of the smart kids are now working for those companies. You can be a web developer, make money and tell your mom where you work
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  • Profile picture of the author Rensburg
    Shocking...if the statistics are correct and true. But definitely believable!
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  • Profile picture of the author jacktackett
    First, I think something like 53.2% of all statistics about the Internet are made up - I read that on the 'net somewhere so it must be true.

    Second, so you think 'Porn' is only a big draw on the Internet? I remember my first trip through Pompeii where the tour director pointed out one of the houses right off the main concourse with its phallic symbol on the wall - porn has been around a long time...

    third - a true story. When I was running internet centers for the various IOCs in the US and my first big issue was our Usenet feed. I had constant complaints about it being offline or not complete. So I had the staff do an analysis of what these folks were reading. You had to go to position 24 (and I'm not talking Kama Sutra) to see non-porn news feed. So I institute a rule that all support tickets for news had to include the name of the newsfeed in the ticket. My complaints dropped over 80%! Seems my customers were not comfortable putting some of those names in an email ;-)

    Finally, no matter what your personal opinion is on porn - in the past it has consistently lead internet commerce in innovations: payment, graphics, memberships, etc.

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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    60% of the time, it works every time.

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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    If anything I would say the 12% number is too low.

    The amount of duplicate content in the adult space is unmatched. Sponsor programs release image and video sets to their affiliates who then make thousands of thumbnail galleries to be posted on hundreds of different websites.

    When people think about adult websites, they think about the big ones. There are literally millions of small websites out there.

    There is still money to be made in the adult niche, it's just that the free line has been moved. Some categories will always remain profitable.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    If the term child pornography is so big, why the hell doesnt google and the other search engines block results for that?
    Searches for that term doesn't necessarily mean people are looking for 'IT', there are a lot of legitimate reasons for why people would be searching for information on that topic.

    Also, you're dealing with something that isn't treated the same in all 50 states much less the rest of the world.

    While in most of the US, 18 and under is a no-go for us older folk, those are the laws of a single country. The internet is global.

    I don't think anybody wants google to censor search results based on the laws of a single country.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
      Originally Posted by nicholasb View Post

      makes me want to open up a shop in elmhurst illinois
      Why?

      Seems like they never leave home!



      ~M~

      EDIT: I looked up the Elmhurst, IL municipal code and they do not allow the selling or distribution of obscene materials. Their local definition of obscene encompasses the things one would typically associate with pornography.
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  • I don't like the idea of Google censoring results. As Jason mentioned above, the Google database is accessed by people world-wide. Who's rules should apply? The most restrictive nation?

    I also wonder what happens when Google starts censoring results to copyright. So far Google has avoided most copyright problems (showing thumbs in their image results, for instance, is not considered copyright violation.) If they begin actively censoring content I wonder if that puts them in a different position regarding international copyright.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    Originally Posted by StedeTroisi View Post

    Google censors 99% of its results. DO YOU KNOW how many sites it de-indexes just because it doesn't like it? Now that is censorship.
    No, it's not.

    If they were changing the content of the sites it lists, THAT would be censorship.

    Also, they can choose to index whatever they like.

    Using your argument, you could say they are censoring your site by not giving you a top listing for your keyword. In fact, using your argument, you could say they are censoring if they don't show your blog in the results for ANY keyword you would like it to be listed under, regardless of the keywords on the page. Think about it.

    AND WHERE DID YOU GET THE FIGURE OF 99%?

    (Sorry, but I am getting freakin' fed up with all of this 99% this and 50/50 that BS. Add to that the idea that ALL sellers are liars, or ALL scarcity is false. ARRRGGGGHHH!!!!)

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  • Profile picture of the author Bruce NewMedia
    LOL...I used to live in Elmhurst IL!....I suspect the reason its the "#1 porn search site" is because Comcast has a main server located there.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
      Last year WordPress passed the 200 million download mark. There are over 100 million blogger blogs and countless other types of sites. When Google stopped publishing how many pages they had in their index they had 50 billion pages indexed. The number became meaningless.

      It is reasonable to assume that all web statistics are suspect. There is no possible way to accurately measure web content. Making inferences based upon what is searched for is foolish. All search engines combined only account for 15% of Internet traffic, with Google claiming 6 to 10%. This means that 85% of traffic has nothing to do with search engines at all.

      I first saw that "Porn Stats on Internet" graphic on Cracked.com, a comedy site. What's funny is how many jumped on it and assumed it was real.

      It seems some people have a deep need to define parameters for their world and to label things. Accepting that there is much more "out there" than can be measured is too hard for some to grasp.
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  • Profile picture of the author khanhdom
    lol quite entertaining to read all those stats, and that's a lot of pedo's! lol
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  • Profile picture of the author knowwow
    This study linked below says more than one third of all web "pages" is pornographic. The infographic up here is based on "sites". I vaguely remember reading somewhere else that 75% of all web "traffic" was pornographic [don't quote me on this] and that I had thought was because it was primarily multimedia content.

    Here is the link to a press release of the study:
    More Than One Third of Web Pages are Pornographic

    BTW: I am surprised by the info up here as well. I don't believe that less than 30K people are viewing porn at this moment. The revenue too... I won't believe that it is only a $5 billion business worldwide...
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      Originally Posted by mcmahanusa View Post

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      That doesn't resolve. Couldn't find it on Google either.

      Or, did you mean "it would make a good website"?
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