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Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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post #34

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?

What is a "porn search engine"? Wouldn't google be the biggest?

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.

You don't even need that level of work experience.

Any reasonably frequently updated personal blog that covers a wide-ish range of topics will have some truly bizarre search traffic referrals.

(or maybe it was just mine? Perish the thought..)

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checked out some European countries and most seemed to have reasonable results until I got to Iceland. The results from Iceland do indeed suggest the sample set is way too small for some regions.

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

How about countries like Ukraine... 'Raincoat (gay)'

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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post #4

That's kind of fascinating. Just looking around a bit, it seems very common in most parts of the world covered to search for one's own nationality as the most common term (Norwegians looking for Norway, Argentines looking for Argentina, etc). Americans seem to look for genres like teen, lesbian, mom, bbw, etc. Even big states like CA, NY, or TX don't seem interested in searching for people from their own states. I do…

I'm guessing that because watching someone who speaks (and moans) your own language removes an artificiality barrier and makes it more authentic. Like a girl next door kind of thing.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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post #6

I'm guessing that this site is biggest in one country (USA?) and alot of those other countries have small sample sets to go on. Searches in many non-US countries are very specific to one porn star, which seems odd. Would need data on traffic by country to clarify that. If this kind of thing is important to you, that is...

Checked out some European countries and most seemed to have reasonable results until I got to Iceland. The results from Iceland do indeed suggest the sample set is way too small for some regions.

Finland seems like a kinky place. Top three results:

1) mature 2) granny 3) male ejaculation (gay)

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Strange how Asian is top ten USA, even moreso than Ebony considering there are more African-American men and women in the U.S. than Asians. The more general terms (Teen, College, Creampie) would most likely primarily show Caucasian stars.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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post #41
post #34

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?

What is a "porn search engine"? Wouldn't google be the biggest?

I assume it's a more direct aggregator :)

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

well, i'm glad chile has company.
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