Yeah, right, pull the other one
I just don’t believe it. Pornography is not the most popular thing searched for on the internet.
This is according to Google’s new search analysis tool, Insights. More Australians use the web to find games than adult content. The top Australian search terms so far this year are: "games", "youtube", "myspace", "ebay", "google", "facebook", "weather", "hotmail", "yahoo" and "real estate".
The tool allows you to narrow down search statistics by country, region, city, etc, by date range and by areas of interest, such as travel or sports. 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 those for "art" trail every other region. Google searches for "news" are most popular in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, while those for "shoes" usually come from Victoria (Kelley must have been googling plenty).
Some other interesting things to note:
- Queenslanders and New South Welshmen are the pornhounds of Australia - searches for "porn" are most popular in Queensland and New South Wales and least popular in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
- "news" is a more popular search term than "porn" only in the ACT, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
- Facebook is currently searched-for more often in the ACT and NT, while MySpace dominates everywhere else.
- Australia is leading the world for searches on "purple monkey dishwasher"
Must go and check up on that last one.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Now MPS is googling purple monkey dishwasher. Thanks for that…
August 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
‘Queenslanders and New South Welshmen are the pornhounds of Australia - searches for “p*rn” are most popular in Queensland and New South Wales and least popular in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.’
Clearly it is all about the weather and beer.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Porn is not searched for anymore because people know where to find it.
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 am
According to Forbes magazine, more is spent on p*rn each year than on any of the major league sports - between $10 and $14 Billion. That’s more than we spend on music and movies combined.
What used to be considered “soft p*rn” is now mainstream. We live in a perverse, depraved society, no doubt. I wonder where we’ll be in 20 years given our current trajectory.
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I am sick of my current dishwasher. Any idea where I can get a purple monkey to wash them for me?
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
“What used to be considered â��soft p*rnâ�� is now mainstream. We live in a perverse, depraved society, no doubt. I wonder where weâ��ll be in 20 years given our current trajectory.”
Hurrah!
No need to google for porn when you live in a place where it’s still legal to buy the good stuff a few suburbs over.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
P*rn is easily accessible with all the ads you see on different sites, no need to google it.