Changing Use of Internet?

CodeHog writes "Wired has an interesting article on the perceived changing use of the Internet. Perceived perhaps because it appears that these findings are based partly on search topics. What's more interesting is what it means to the tech community at large. Could this be a new area of tech jobs, setting up and maintaining ecommerce sites, creating search assisting applications?"

No, it just means

[Anonymous Coward]

People have already found their porn and don't need to search for it anymore.

Its true!

[Kenja]

Now you can put that four years of school to work at home in your spare time selling and buying stuff on eBay for the russian mafia.

MIS

[craigtay]

So, basically.. your telling me that I should drop out of the Computer Science program at my school and pick up a degree in MIS, so I can make crappy webpages the rest of my life?

Correction

[Anonymous Coward]

That should be internets.

Sorry, it's me

[Spackler]

Doods,

Sorry, it was me who cut down on the sex searches and stuff. I'm getting older, and there are more things involved in life now. I know, it's an old excuse to cut down. Wife and kidz will do that to you someday as well. I had figured there was another young rebel behind me, so make sure Libby and Jenna would still get plenty of page hits in seach engines. I thought I passed the torch to some first class deviants. Instead, you search for Biz and TV and crap. You don't deserve the internet.

Spack

Re:No, it just means

[over_exposed]

"Twenty percent of all searching was sex-related back in 1997; now it's about 5 percent"

You're right - it's all been bookmarked :-)

Signs of the apocalypse

[xThinkx]

Red Moon appears in the sky

Boston wins the world series

INTERNET BEING USED FOR SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE

Oh dear lord, we're all doomed!

E-Commerce?

[Chas]

Translation: They've already got all the free porn. Now they're looking to buy more.

Depression

[Matey-O]

There's not as many sex searches cause seeing 30 new people a day getting it more than you are gets depressing after awhile.

Earth to OP, come in OP!

[Peldor]

"Could this be a new area of tech jobs, setting up and maintaining ecommerce sites, creating search assisting applications?"

Look, man, it's over. The crazy tech boom is done. Let it go. Take some management classes or something. You keep this up and we're going to report you to Unemployed Tech Workers Anonymous and organize an intervention for you.

Don't we all...

[Juvenall]

From the Article:
"Remember when cars came out, and people would say, 'Wow, we're going for a ride today!' Now they just go for a ride." Oh yes, how could ANY of us not remember that! Hey, you guys remember the time Lothar was smashing those rocks together and invented fire. Ahh, those were the days..

Let's prove them wrong!

[GillBates0]

Internet users are doing far fewer searches for sex and pornography and more for e-commerce and business than they were seven years ago, University of Pittsburgh and Penn State researchers say in a new book.

There you go:
Google search for s3x [google.com]
Google search for pr0n [google.com]

In other news, "Internet searches" for the terms in question skyrocketed through the roof today leaving the UPitt and Pennstate researchers puzzled and dismayed. It appears one of the Master's thesis was withdrawn after the event. More at 11.

Re:You Miles May Vary

[justforaday]

At the moment there are too many noises when searching for real sex-related sites, most of them are full of pop-up and nothing useful

I don't know if i'd consider a pop-up "nothing useful" when talking about porn...

Or....

[PhilipMckrack]

Undersexed nerds have gone from 20% of the users in 1997 to 5% today as more and more *regular* people can get computers and connected to the internet.

Less p0rn searchs? Easy...

[RTFA]

"Twenty percent of all searching was sex-related back in 1997; now it's about 5 percent,"

Well, easy, I got a girlfiend since '98!

Futurama predicted this...

[Lumpmoose]

"Well, thanks to the Internet I'm now bored with sex."
-Fry, A Bicyclops Built For Two

...it just happened about 1,000 years early.

Re:No, it just means

[bigman2003]

Once you go to worldsex.com, do you really need to find anything else.

This plug has nothing to do with my own involvement with the site, other than the fact that I am a very happy customer of their free porn links.

Re:You Miles May Vary

[bigman2003]

I can remember spending DAYS looking for pictures of topless girls on Splash Mountain. DAYS.

When I found the pictures, I was pretty disappointed...but I probably still jerked off at least once. Boobs are good, almost no matter what.

Re:No, it just means

[kisielk]

I just get all of mine through popups ;)

Re:Green Tennis Shoes Principle

[Anonymous Coward]

I just searched Google for "green tennis shoes" and found nothing relating to other people who like them! Am I to be alone forever?

Re:Sorry, it's me

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Wow! I'm not married yet- I mean I already looks at a LOT- that's going to be a surreal amount of porn!

Worth getting married just for extra porn. Why didn't anyone tell me?

Re:Lazyness

[pipingguy]

the idea of "keywords" and that putting in more keywords only narrows the results without using any operators (AND, OR)

Oh, how I pine for AltaVista in 1997...or was it HotBot?