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Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Some of these just come across as though someone said, "We have to come up with ten search terms for each state and country - do something so that every location gets ten results!":

1) Kentucky's #1 search term is "free gay porn" - pretty specific relative to all the other terms elsewhere

2) Iowa's #6 is "backroom casting couch" but Wyoming's #3 is "brcc". That's either poor data warehousing practices, or an intentional choice to say "People who type the term in are differentiated from people who use the acronym." I'm assuming that it's poor data warehousing or small sample size given how "milf" is in almost every state but not one state has the fully-spelled out version.

3) Mississippi's results are skewed relative to what most people think about Mississippi. For a state that is supposed to be 60% Caucasian[1], their top search terms are not very Caucasian-like. I'm thinking small sample size here.

4) Connecticut's #10 result is "lisa ann"

5) Maine has both "ebony" and "black" as top search terms

6) Most of the South American listings have some variation of the country name.

7) Every result in Peru is gay. Clearly this is either small sample size, marketing, or "other".

I'm surprised more people aren't focusing on the "dirty data" (pun intended). Clearly something is weird with the data - it's either working on small sample sizes, or there's been some poor work done to get it to this point (not enough work done, for example).

[1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28000.html

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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How about countries like Romania... 'Mom and son'. -What?

That one is listed for Hungary too. Looking at local sites and it seems that it's quite a popular fetish here.

Is there much of a fetish for gay koreans and gay grandpas in Hungary?

It seems more likely the results are dominated by searches from one person, especially when there are no results for Slovakians or most of the Balkan states at all.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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That one is listed for Hungary too. Looking at local sites and it seems that it's quite a popular fetish here.

After living in Hungary I picked up on the fact that mother/son relationships are not what they are in the rest of the world and what we in the States would consider too close. I heard that it wasn't uncommon for married men to take their laundry home to their mother's house on the weekend, etc. Western Romania is still strongly ethnically Hungarian, so that could account for the similar prevalence there.

You heard right. Nudity is also more prevalent than in the western cultures, it's completely normal for a child to see their parents naked, even in their teens and beyond.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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As I saw this news story over and over on different sites, all I thought was.. who is the PR genius behind this?

What better way to establish yourself "The World's Biggest Porn Search Engine." than having non-porn media legitimize you for free?

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Having worked on search engines for over 10 years and seen what people search for first hand from the logs, these lists are the PG-13 version. Which is for the best. Some things cannot be un-seen.

I'm not looking forward to that with Nuuton. O_O

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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That one is listed for Hungary too. Looking at local sites and it seems that it's quite a popular fetish here.

Is there much of a fetish for gay koreans and gay grandpas in Hungary? It seems more likely the results are dominated by searches from one person, especially when there are no results for Slovakians or most of the Balkan states at all.

On the same note, everybody in Peru would be searching for gay porn if their sample set was representative.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Well... Blacks are still a minority in these places. I know they are a minority in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. I think it is probably a combination of blacks and whites searching on 'Ebony' that makes it come out on top in the data. Just as in California I strongly suspect a combination of Asians and Whites searching on 'Asian' places that term high in their data.

Or more likely, white people don't have to specify "white" in their searches because most mainstream porn is already "white". If that wasn't the case, I'd bet "white" or "caucasian" would be the top search in every single state. Sure there are probably quite a few white people that also search for ebony porn. But I doubt it's that much higher amongst whites in the south vs. whites in the north. And even if it is, it'…

"...Sure there are probably quite a few white people that also search for ebony porn. But I doubt it's that much higher amongst whites in the south vs. whites in the north..."

That's an interesting question. It would be illustrative to get the data for that. My own wager would be that it is slightly higher... just as searches by whites on 'Asian' is slightly higher in California than it is in ... say ... North Dakota. But that data would be telling.

In any case... I do agree with you that it's not "cross burning racism" that is driving these searches. My own suspicion is that it's probably more a matter of simply close 'proximity' combined with the natural difficulty of starting those relationships in the first place.

But of course data would be needed to validate any of this.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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That one is listed for Hungary too. Looking at local sites and it seems that it's quite a popular fetish here.

Is there much of a fetish for gay koreans and gay grandpas in Hungary? It seems more likely the results are dominated by searches from one person, especially when there are no results for Slovakians or most of the Balkan states at all.

Yes, the sample is probably small, but Hungarians like some really, really weird shit. Here's an English [1] and a Hungarian [2] article about extreme porn in the country. Porn is culture here. One of the biggest porn directors [3] a is household name and is considered a celebrity.

As for Gay Grandpas, well searching for "Gay Grandpa Sex" [4] yields 29 700 results.

[1]: http://www.pestiside.hu/20100128/police-raid-the-only-effect...

[2]: http://www.nol.hu/archivum/archiv-506693

[3]: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1018310/

[4]: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=meleg%20nagy...

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Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Check out the preponderance of ebony porn and black gay porn in the Deep South. Virginias, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map for comparison...

Most of these groups are very small with little influence (though some are very active politically, though it isn't listed, the Sons of Confederate Veterans loves to make life hard for state legislators and Governors). Many of these are literally holes in the wall, like The Redneck Shop in SC (not discrediting racism in the SE, but most people have other things to do with their time). What is really going on: http://…

Awesome, thanks for this, this is good data literacy
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