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Is ‘Sex’ the most searched topic on the Internet?

Published by netty5, last update on Friday September 12, 2008 06:35:37 PM by netty5

Is ‘Sex’ the most searched topic on the Internet?






Myth


With the fast rise of pornographic materials on the Internet, it has been set in everybody’s mind that ‘sex’ is the most queried through search engines. This idea is backed up by some online articles, describing how sex has affected the world as it is becoming more accessible through Internet tools.

Reality


Search engines have gathered a database, which have been have made public, of the most searched topics on the Internet year after year. And to our great surprise, sex does not seem to be present in the top 10 searches on the Internet. With time and technological advances, it can now be proved that ‘sex’ is not the only thing that the Internet offers and many users have understood and proved it through the numbers that you can find in the links below:

Google: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/archive.html
Yahoo!: http://buzz.yahoo.com/
AOL: http://hotsearches.aol.com/
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