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Do More People Use The Web For News or Porn?
Mike Mothner | August 28th, 2007
Not that anyone was proposing that sex doesn’t sell, but it is amazing to compare the Alexa ranks of the mainstream news web sites with that oft-ignored side of the web, which we can euphemistically call “adult-related entertainment”. For those that don’t know Alexa is a convenient web measurement tool that ranks the popularity of sites on the internet. It is by no means 100% accurate, and is skewed by the demographics of those that use the Alexa Toolbar. Irregardless, comparing the Alexa rank of two sites does give a solid idea of which gets more visitors. So, that all said, do people use the web for porn or news? Let’s spend some time on the most recent Alexa top 500 list and compare the rankings of top news sites versus top porn sites. Warning: you may find the results unsettling! LATimes.com (#1307) gets demolished by RealityKings.com (#315) The venerable NYTimes.com (#202) is edged out by PornoTube.com (#194) USAToday.com? WSJ.com? CBS.com? NBC.com? FoxNews.com? DrudgeReport.com? Not even close. Not even the highest of them (USAtoday.com at #850) comes remotely close to BangBros1.com at #186. Okay, maybe people are getting their news at aggregators such as Digg.com (#105). They are doing well, but not as well as Megarotic.com (#76). All right, we need some sanity here; what is the highest ranked news site in the rankings? Am I just glossing over the big players? Fine. CNN.com is the highest ranked news site at #81. That’s pretty great, but sadly they get edged Continue reading…
Let’s Talk about Se.xxx
Michael Block | March 30th, 2007
With a title as provocative as this, I’m sure that readers would prefer that I skip the formalities and just get down to the nitty-gritty of everyone’s favorite topic: pornography. But, seeing as this is my first post on the Search Insider, I decided that I should introduce myself first. Admit it, you’re savoring the anticipation! My name is Michael Block and along with being a fellow Dartmouth alumnus of Michael Mothner’s, I am also the Vice President of Client Services for his wonderful company, Wpromote. As writing has always been something of a hobby of mine, I was grateful to be given the opportunity to post on the Search Insider. I hope to write as frequently as Mike will let me, so make sure that you Digg this post. Alright, back to the good stuff. Access to online pornography has been a divisive yet prevalent topic ever since Al Gore was good enough to invent the Internet in the early 90s. In the interest of brevity, though, I won’t get into the historical details. Suffice it to say, the adult industry, libertarian-minded individuals and a small, often overlooked demographic of Americans known as “males” generally find themselves on one side of the debate whereas religious groups, concerned parents and values-oriented politicians tend to end up on the other. Today, in Portugal, the latter group earned a big victory as ICANN again shot down the idea of the .xxx domain suffix yet again. Actually, since the adult industry lobbied heavily Continue reading…
