Sex loses out to business on the Internet

SEX AND pornography subjects have been knocked off the top of the most popular web searches.

A survey conducted down under has revealed that punters are more interested in business subjects and commerce than they are about pr0n.

Queensland University of Technology's Professor Amanda Spinks said today said the interest in porn had dropped since the mid-90's when more than 17 percent of web searches were sex related. Now the figure is a flaccid 17 per cent.

Spink's research analysed up to 30 million search sessions from search engines including Alta Vista, AlltheWeb.com, Ask.com, Excite and Dogpile.

Prof Spinks said were multiple reasons sex could have fallen behind. The first is that all the sex sites are bookmarked and people don't bother to search for them any more. The other is that there is a more general demographic was using the web. In the 1990s it was usually smut obsessed males.

Of course it is possible that these types have gone blind and don't visit those sites any more. More here. µ