Poll: The Internet is NOT for Porn
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I do like that song.
But if you want to be serious I would say there are more porn site than any other specific kind of site. But on the whole there are 100s if not 1000s of different kinds of specific variates of sites. So I'd be surprised if over 10% of all sites were pornographic sites.
But if you want to be serious I would say there are more porn site than any other specific kind of site. But on the whole there are 100s if not 1000s of different kinds of specific variates of sites. So I'd be surprised if over 10% of all sites were pornographic sites.
I highly doubt that, based on the fact that I searched the word "hentai" to find out what it is about 6 or 7 months ago, and many - MANY results came up with porno related words in the site addresses.heavymedicombo said:
Oh and thanks! It's from "Not the 9 O'clock news"
Allow me to point out that every single person posting an opinion is pretty much pulling stuff straight out of their rectum. It's a statistic, and I doubt anyone here has access to the kind of information that allows us to dabble on statistics and percentages.
Is it used for porn? Undoubtedly.
Is it used for porn more than for everything else? Nobody here can actually tell you that. The study you mentioned is most likely the most accurate information you can rely on.
There's a lot of porn on the internet, and I mean a LOT. You probably can't even conceive how much (in quantity and diversity) of it there is. But there's an insurmountable amount of pretty much anything on the internet... Trying to "eyeball it" is akin to going to the beach and trying to eyeball the exact number of grains of sand.
Is it used for porn? Undoubtedly.
Is it used for porn more than for everything else? Nobody here can actually tell you that. The study you mentioned is most likely the most accurate information you can rely on.
There's a lot of porn on the internet, and I mean a LOT. You probably can't even conceive how much (in quantity and diversity) of it there is. But there's an insurmountable amount of pretty much anything on the internet... Trying to "eyeball it" is akin to going to the beach and trying to eyeball the exact number of grains of sand.
I was just watching the same episode 
I only use the internet for useless facts, stalking ex-girlfriends on facebook, Escapist and erm .... other things
I only use the internet for useless facts, stalking ex-girlfriends on facebook, Escapist and erm .... other things
1.1% is bullshit. I can say that confidently, because when I turn off safe-search there is MUCH more than 1.1% of pictures showing pornography.
I don't remember where it was from, but I heard from another study that 30% of the internet was made up of pornography of some sort. And I believe that that is a reasonable number. Even if it isn't proven, I still plan to use 30% as a rule of thumb.
I don't remember where it was from, but I heard from another study that 30% of the internet was made up of pornography of some sort. And I believe that that is a reasonable number. Even if it isn't proven, I still plan to use 30% as a rule of thumb.
there is a lot of porn out there but its one of those things that you talk about without being able to know for sure. at least that's how me and my friends think it is.
The internet is for whatever we want it to be. What is on the internet will be a reflection of what the users want, and sex only makes up a slice of our lives. For most of us, it doesn't dominate it (or at least, it shouldn't).
A lot of the internet is used for economic transactions, business purposes, pure communication and data monitoring, storing, collecting. Thanks to cloud-computing, scientists are using the processing power of multiple PC's to figure out how proteins fold together or to look for splicing patterns and regulatory sequences. That's not porn, and I can tell you, scientists are running a LOT of calculations.
Maybe porn makes up most of the internet that the average male user visits, but when you take into account the internet as a whole.... man, 1.1% sounds about right. There's a lot of places on the internet that most mainstream audiences will never visit - pubmed or the ncbi for instance - huge, enormous biological/genetics information databases that most people have never heard of.
Google is making a cracking effort at trying to catalogue and store almost every single bit of print in the 20th century. If you've seen how many books and magazines they've scanned in, that alone probably surpasses the amount of porn on the net.
And what about stock information or the data streams coming from satellites, or the amount of forum posts or the amount of gaming information....
yeah, if you think about it, 1.1% sounds about right.
A lot of the internet is used for economic transactions, business purposes, pure communication and data monitoring, storing, collecting. Thanks to cloud-computing, scientists are using the processing power of multiple PC's to figure out how proteins fold together or to look for splicing patterns and regulatory sequences. That's not porn, and I can tell you, scientists are running a LOT of calculations.
Maybe porn makes up most of the internet that the average male user visits, but when you take into account the internet as a whole.... man, 1.1% sounds about right. There's a lot of places on the internet that most mainstream audiences will never visit - pubmed or the ncbi for instance - huge, enormous biological/genetics information databases that most people have never heard of.
Google is making a cracking effort at trying to catalogue and store almost every single bit of print in the 20th century. If you've seen how many books and magazines they've scanned in, that alone probably surpasses the amount of porn on the net.
And what about stock information or the data streams coming from satellites, or the amount of forum posts or the amount of gaming information....
yeah, if you think about it, 1.1% sounds about right.