England obsessed with porn
Scots and Welsh can't be bothered
A TOOL which is supposed to show the most popular searches in Google has revealed that, while the English are fascinated by porn, the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish can take or leave it.
Google Insights For Search is intended for advertisers hunting out the hot new search terms which means that it can be used to discern what the Internet-using public thinks is hot.
Type in the word 'porn' into the software and you discover that England has a search volume index of 90 percent. Scotland is a bit lower while Wales and Northern Ireland don't bother searching at all for it. Maybe the Celts are too busy doing what the Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian types are watching other people doing. Certainly the figures suggest that the Welsh are more worried about blindness than the English. Probably as a result of looking at all that porn.
In the UK we are trying to search for porn on the cheap. By far the largest search request was 'free porn' which eclipsed a search for the word 'sex' by nearly four times.
Interest in porn searches has continued to rise since 2004, but smut no longer dominates the internet. In fact the one-handed surfers don't even get into the UK Top Ten which is:
1. bbc
2. facebook
3. youtube
4. games
5. ebay
6. hotmail
7. bebo
8. yahoo
9. weather
10. google
Quite why anyone would do a Google search for 'google' is a bit beyond us but the Internet is a strange place populated by even stranger people. Yes we're looking at you... µ
Comments
Gurgle
Google it probably on the list due to our ethnic mix.Google.co.uk is a default page so to go to somewhere like the Polish google (or any international google) I would imagine many people here (England) would just type 'google poland' into the search bar and then click on to the link.
As for the pron, well, we are all prudes haha
You mean ...
... Googling for "Google" won't break the Internets?Retarded searches
Why the hell do people search for all those names? Why not just type them in to the address bar and add .co.uk after?In fact, most DNS servers will redirect you if you just type in BBC!
And why the hell would you search for google in google???
illiteracy
Perhaps the more worrying thing about this is is the extent of nationwide computer illiteracy. Out of the top ten searches, 8 of them were unecessary - the website is located at *search*.comThis presumably means that our nation is hugely dominated by people who still don't understand what the address bar of a web browser is - some ten years into the widespread popularity of the internet.
Cursed address bar search
"google" figures on top 10 because lazy people don't type "www." and ".com", so the auto address bar search facility present in a few browsers submit a new search.Lazy and stupid people, because they could search what they wanted right away.
Everything is explained in this amazing article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/02/01/yahoo-more-popular-than-sex-says-google
If you...
If you type google into google you can break the internet.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKAq_FNHh0k&feature=related
Rob
Strange faces
> ...but the Internet is a strange place populated> by even stranger people. Yes we're looking at
> you... µ
Ehm, you were looking at the mirror in the hallway?
Explanation
The Scots and Welsh have all the sites bookmarked.Oh gawd...
So 8 out of the top 10 are for people who can't type the word with .com on the end in the address bar instead...Jeeez, I didn't even know my mother was on facebook!
Elucidation
There are a lot of reasons to search google on google, like info on their privacy, buyouts, controversies, where to find the very page you write about in this article, the lives and views of the creators, the books they wrote, etcetera.Although there will be a percentage of idiots who goto google by looking for it on google and clicking the first link I suppose :/
Not surprising
Women in England are very ugly and fat, so it is not surprising that the English men resort to internet porn. Hopefully their fat ugly wives do not catch them with their pants at their ankles.You got it wrong...
"A TOOL which is supposed to show the most popular searches in Google has revealed that, while the English are fascinated by porn, the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish can take or leave it."...or simply it may just mean that the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish folks are more porn-savvy. They don't have to search for it, they just know where they find it on the net.
Poms n porn
Maybe the poms are surfing for porn because their women are ugly.This would explain things quite nicely since the Scottish women are far better looking.
I don't know where this leaves the welsh ...
top 10
The top 10 list reads a little like most people don't know how to use a browser. The amount of people I've met who didn't know you can type web addresses into the address bar..... they think you can only get to sites through a search engine like Google.google is the internet
A lot of people think that Google is the gateway to the internet. They have a google homepage or search bar. Whenever they want to go to a site, they type the URL into google (search) and go to where ever the results take them.Hence, if they wish to go to Google - maybe to look for something, it's possible that they'd go there by googling for google.
'Couldn't be bothered'?
Surely the English lingo for this would be 'Couldn't give a toss'.You're looking at US !?!?
You’re looking at us? Well, when was the INQ (and its staff) ordained by the Pope, blessed by Rabbis, and/or mentioned in the Koran? Forgive me; I never knew the high esteem/standards in which you collectively hold yourselves above the rest of us, the Internet masses/minions, if you will.How very British.
I suppose the servers/network at the INQ don’t have ‘content restrictions’ enabled because your staff is above such base and tawdry desires.
It does seems odd however, that typing in the word “sex” in your search window listed 391 hits/articles. I’m sure this is purely in the interest well rounded, computer/industry, journalistic reporting.
. The fact is we’re all part of same internet collective, Nick, and you are merely another bit player. Please, spare us the selfpromoted accolades. The Staff at the INQ are not gods, further, you’re not good at it, and the job is already taken.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Not to worry, you pompous and arrogant twits, we’re looking back at you, your clay feet, and your high ecumenical standards.
SPARKS
Joe Average hasn't learned anything about the internet since the mid 90's.
1. bbc2. facebook
3. youtube
4. games
5. ebay
6. hotmail
7. bebo
8. yahoo
9. weather
10. google
This is a testament to the number of idiots out there who don't know how to use the address bar.
The IT Crowd
"If you type Google into Google you WILL break the internet."Google For Google
If you have Google as your default web browser search engineIf you type google in the address bar
No Http or .com
it will feeling lucky search for google
Hense the high volume of google searches
fake or inaccurate article contents
The information presente here is not accurate. here is a link to google insights for search showing that in all of the above mentioned countries there is a high volume of searches for the word "porn":http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=porn&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q
Who told you that you
were Porn? On the day that I realised I was Baked was too late. I never nelled the same spay again.