Kolya on 19/6/2007 at 13:04
No, this isn't a thread about g0atse & co.
But I have heard it so many times that porn made up the major part of the net... And despite my own experience being different I started to believe it. You never know what (sexy) demons hide in dark corners, right?
Well accidentally I just stumbled over this report by IBM internet security systems dated January 2007. ((
http://www.iss.net/documents/whitepapers/X_Force_Exec_Brief.pdf) PDF) It has some interesting stats, one of them about "unwanted" content on the net.
Quote:
- 12.5 percent of Internet Web sites host “unwanted” content such as pornography, violence and crime, etc.
- Web sites that host pornographic or sex-related content account for 12.03 percent of the Internet.
- "Unwanted" content has risen by between 9-14 percent in 2006 (depending on web content)
- The U.S. is the top hosting country for “unwanted” content such as violence and crime, pornography and sex, computer crime, and illegal drugs.
I just thought people might find this interesting due to the popular belief that porn makes up XXX% of the net. And yeah, it's still a lot, and it doesn't say anything about whether porn is/was the major driving force for the development of the net. Which is another internet porn myth I guess.
Sluggs on 19/6/2007 at 13:07
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The U.S. is the top hosting country for “unwanted” content such as violence and crime, pornography and sex, computer crime, and illegal drugs
Unwanted? :confused: Who they trying to kid?
I WANT IT ALL, DAMN IT! :D
Aerothorn on 19/6/2007 at 16:06
I didn't see THAT one coming, Sluggs:rolleyes:
Seriously though, good find Kolya. I always doubted that it made the majority of the net. Also, due to the fact that it's all media, the "percent" would seem larger than it really is, since (in file size) a picture isn't just worth a thousand words, it's worth a hundred thousand. And videos are worth a lot of pictures.
Ziemanskye on 19/6/2007 at 17:03
Only twelve percent.
You see what blogs by people we don't know or care about have done to our glorious statistics?
Still, it might be useful for helping convince the paranoid that the internet is safer than they might think.
Schattentänzer on 19/6/2007 at 17:22
The linked PDF is interesting, especially the spam stats. However, I don't know what to make of that 12% share. I followed the source links in the PDF, but can't say that made things any clearer - are URLs counted, or just the hosts? Or volume? What about link farms, which are a favourite trick of porn sites to gain google ranks? How is the legitimate content divided up? For example, would you think 12% is a small share if you knew that, say, news sites also make only 12% of the total?
I tried to find a bit more conclusive numbers, but turns out I'm either too stupid to use google or this thing hasn't really been looked into properly so far. Google (the company) could probably provide such information, but if they do I couldn't find it.
37637598 on 19/6/2007 at 17:24
The standards of porn have raised.
Mr.Duck on 20/6/2007 at 01:30
:cool:
It's all about pr0n, my friends.
Ah, good times...
jimjack on 20/6/2007 at 01:37
no better way to pass a stagnant saturday night. So many times have my school physics projects been thwarted by porn souly due to the need to innocently google something pertaining to light cones
Thief13x on 20/6/2007 at 03:01
lmao can relate completly:laff:
Arael on 20/6/2007 at 09:22
Quote:
- 12.5 percent of Internet Web sites host “unwanted” content such as pornography, violence and crime, etc.
- 62.1% percent of sites host wanted and highly prized pornography.
Fixed. Please don't limit the statistics to the unwanted ones.
