Internet Only 1% Porn

Eli Gottlieb writes "In what surely comes as a complete and utter surprise to everyone here, a new calculation shows that only one percent of web pages contain pornography. While the calculations were performed using data forced from Google's and Microsoft's search indices by the government, they will help the American Civil Liberties Union to keep enforcement of the Children's Online Protection Act of 1998 banned. A loss for business privacy has become a victory for free speech, even though netizens lose a beloved old proverb."

In about 1 per cent of the Slashdot articles

[igny]

I get "Nothing to see here, move along".

I suspect

[WormholeFiend]

that everyone's hard drive pron content percentage is much higher, however.

oh no!

[rayde]

Dang! Now what am I gonna do with my new Dell [youtube.com]?

99-1 law

[cucucu]

99% of the people spend their time in 1% of the web

The Internet is...

[consumer_whore]

99% useless

Why I usually don't RTFA...

[geoffspear]

A giant, annoying ad floating over the page and they still can't earn enough money to hire a copyeditor who can spell "Microsoft" correctly? How can I subscribe to this fine publication?

1% pornography, 93% "art"

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, you see it's like this -- the internet contains only 1% "pornography"; but of the remaining 99%, 93% consists of "artistic nudity" and "adult performance art". :-)

Other figures:

[From A Far Away Land]

1% Porn
49% Erotica
2% Goatse
30% Bush haters
15% Bush supporters
2% Slashdot articles
10% Blogs
8% Math geniuses
42% AOL and MySpace pages .3% Good Stuff .01% Abandoned Stuff
69% Potty humour
80% Top Ten and Stupid Lists

Doing my part...

[Rob T Firefly]

...to skew the odds back where they belong. --------> (_Y_)

Another way of loooking at it...

[91degrees]

Google indexes somewhere around 4000 million web pages. This means that the internet is flooded with 40 million pages of porn!

Numbers are great when you make them dance.

The internet is for porn...

[Kirgin]

Google and Microsoft search indices. Sounds like too pure a fountain to draw from. Try mining from a dirtier source, like my browser history.

Re:I suspect

[Salvance]

Hmmm .... a few years ago the journal Nature found that 2% of the internet was porn [216.109.125.130]. This would explain why it now takes me twice as long to find what I'm looking for.

A few calculations

[el_womble]

My maths isn't great, but I did a few simple calculations and that is still a metric fuckload of porn.

Feel free to convert it into imperial. I think rods would be an appropriate measure.

Re:I suspect

[grazzy]

We must take this threat to internet porn seriously and ACT before it's to late. According to these statistics internet porn will be down to 0% in just a couple of years. Save the porn before it goes extinct!

Re:Irrelevant to policy makers

[Apocalypse111]

All that porn is clogging up the tubes, and it making them really sticky - that's why it takes so long for me to get the internets that my staff sends me.

Re:Other figures:

[vidnet]

Many of them overlap. Take Bush supporters and Potty humour for instance.

ONLY 1% Porn?

[gambler_mtu]

Given the size of the Internet, I find that rather sad. Too many people's lives are damaged/ruined by porn for even 1% to be acceptable. It would be better for society if that number were 0, we'd have a lot less child predators and rapists on the streets. I'm not saying that people shouldn't have the right to debase themselves...I just think it is sad that it is made so easy by the internet.

Re:A few calculations

[Anonymous Coward]

How many Rods to a Fuckload?

Internet by Diebold

[shirizaki]

1% Porn
40% Useless meme and trivia
59% George W. Bush

Re:Diluted

[An ominous Cow art]

And is that 1% by weight, or by volume?

Re:oh no!

[neoform]

Get yourself a hotmail account. You'll be shown where to get porn in a few hours.

Easy now...

[Greyfox]

People could be looking at this from work. You don't want to get anyone fired, do you?

Re:ONLY 1% Porn?

[StoatBringer]

If it cheers you up, I find this thread difficult to masturbate to.

Re:Doing my part...

[Aladrin]

Anyone else having trouble figuring out what that is?

I kid, I kid!

Porn vs Mac

[scrotch]

I'm not sure what this says about me, but it occurred to me that Apple has better market share than porn...

I want to know....

[hcob$]

How did they search the whole internet for porn.... And can I have some of the links.

I'm tired of wasting 10 minutes to.... errr.... Wasting 10 minutes to search a topic and finding nothing but porn. I need those links to err.... block the porn... yeah.

Re:1% by number of pages, 99% by bandwidth consume

[east coast]

All-in-all, I still think (right or wrong) that pr0n is a big motivator for Internet access especially broadband.

Come on now, you know Joe Sixpack got broadband to watch the MIT OCW lectures. Don't bring him down with bad noise. He needs all the encouragement he can get.

The muzzle of a cat?

[Ayanami Rei]

  o o
*(_Y_)*

The other 99%

[Benwick]

It's 1% pornography and 99% erotica.

yeah! i wonder when they'll learn about metatags

[C0vardeAn0nim0]

metatags can control what a search engine can/can't look at a website.

all the porn sites have to do is put "no-cache" metatags on their pages to keep them off gogle's cache.

now here comes the science. they do research using webcaches as source, come with a meaningles, wrong number and want us to let go of our proverb ???

well, they can have my proverb when they pry it from my cold dead hand!!! the left one, of course. the right is kinda busy right now.

Re:1% by number of pages, 99% by bandwidth consume

[MyOtherUIDis3digits]

AKA "1% by number of pages, 99% by disk space on my computer"

Re:melons

[Anonymous Coward]

the .xxx doman idea was a good idea I think.

Luckily for all of us, you are not an ICANN member.

Anyone can turn off the safe search option on google in 2 clicks.

Right. But that generally means they are actively looking for non-"safe" content. Switching off Safe Search and then complaining that some of your search results were porn is akin to shooting yourself in the foot and then blaming the gun.

Re:1% by number of pages, 99% by bandwidth consume

[MyOtherUIDis3digits]

WTF?!? I know I selected "post anonymously"! Umm, I mean, hey! Someone hijacked my /. account!

Re:1% by number of pages, 99% by bandwidth consume

[Kozz]

So what makes up the Internet? Webpages or the data that flows over networks.

Answer: Yes.

Re:A few calculations

[Anonymous Coward]

Generally one, but it can be four or more, the value changes with the energy level of the participants.

Internet Only 1% Porn...

[Tzorcelan]

... the other 98% is porn spam.

Re:Only 1%?

[LiquidCoooled]

BURMA SHAVE!

We don't need no steenking suits...

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

>Ok, bad phonetic pun, sue me.

We here at the Slashdot Language Police do not use lawsuits for such offenses; we prefer flogging. There is a strong minority opinion that bad anatomical puns should be punished by flaying of the referenced anatomical part. Fortunately for you, the number of Slashdotters able to recognize a pun such as yours playing on rules of spelling and pronunciation is far less than the alleged 1% porn content of the internet, so you're probably safe. This time. You have been warned, however.

oblig. quote

[Anonymous Coward]

<y0da> if they took the porn of the internet there would only be one website left and that would be www.bringbackbacktheporn.com

via http://bash.org/?416604 [bash.org]

Re:I suspect

[mattwarden]

I suspect that the porn content of the Net is highly underrated. Having done such surveys in my life for businesses

I want your job.

Re:1% ?

[LunaticTippy]

I took the liberty of doing a study for you. Here are the results:

Results 1 - 10 of about 328 for omg poniez!!!. (0.13 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,630,000 for pr0n. (0.12 seconds)

From this I conclude that there is 11067.07X more pr0n than omg poniez!!! on the intarweb. Now, let's correct your spelling:

Results 1 - 10 of about 152,000 for omg ponies!!!. (0.13 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 106,000,000 for porn [definition]. (0.10 seconds)

Now we know that there is 697.36X more porn than omg ponies!!. I'll leave the other calculations to the reader.

Interestingly, the search for "porn" was the fastest search. Somehow they've optimized that one.

Re:ONLY 1% Porn?

[LoveGoblin]

If it cheers you up, I find this thread difficult to masturbate to.

I can't help but notice that you said "difficult" and not "impossible."

Re:Doing my part...

[Anonymous Coward]

\,/\,/

better?

On the plus side :)

[Anonymous Coward]

That leaves room for 99% improvement :)

Re:The proof is in the... uh... "pudding"

[jahudabudy]

I'm married and do get laid

Boy, I wish! I'm just too afraid that my wife will find out...

Re:The other 99%

[binarybum]

thumbnails that claim to lead to porn that really only lead to more thumbnails that then lead to pop-up technology so sophisticated that it validates the existence of a higher being, and apparently he doesn't want us getting to that 1% very easily.

Re:1% by number of pages, 99% by bandwidth consume

[Matthew Bafford]

U get the idea.

Dude, you're not helping the "Make the Internet Look Clean" cause. You just sacrificed 2 bytes to the porn side of the equation. Imagine what would happen if EVERYONE did that...