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Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Wow, South America really, really likes gay porn. Look at Peru--every one of the top searches is tagged "(gay)". I wonder why that is; are many Peruvians gay? Do straight Peruvians simply not view porn?

i think they may be based on very small sample sizes.

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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 intentio…

milf isn't a great acronym to use for your example, it is exclusively used as "milf" and very rarely fulled "spelled out" unless you're quoting American Pie.

good points though.

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Hm. They labeled Oregon "Nevada", there is no info on how many searches these lists represent, and I'm not sure what half of these terms mean (most bizarrely "Straight (gay)"?) - but otherwise it's very interesting. I would have assumed a priori that stereotypical national fetishes feature more clearly, but instead people seem to search for their own country in the first place.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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post #56

Hm. They labeled Oregon "Nevada", there is no info on how many searches these lists represent, and I'm not sure what half of these terms mean (most bizarrely "Straight (gay)"?) - but otherwise it's very interesting. I would have assumed a priori that stereotypical national fetishes feature more clearly, but instead people seem to search for their own country in the first place.

> (most bizarrely "Straight (gay)"?)

There's a whole subgenre of gay porn featuring 'straight' men having sex with other men.

It varies from 'guys who look "passably" straight' to 'guys who are "straight" and have girlfriends but get tricked/coerced into having sex with other men".

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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?

It very well might not be, depending on how you define "porn search engine". If you mean "search engine on which porn searches are ever conducted", then sure. Otherwise, it's far more up in the air.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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now i need to go watch what a creampie is. it's rather popular here in the US

I'd honestly advise using Urban Dictionary instead. A creampie may or may not be disgusting, but if it is, you'd probably prefer a textual description.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=creampie

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 intentio…

"lisa ann" comes up in a large number of countries, too. I'm really not sure how to interpret that.

Israel's #3 search was "college rules". Not "college".

Nigeria's #3 search was "things i jack off to".

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