[Myth] Is (sex) the most searched topic on the Internet?

Last update on August 3, 2009 04:27 PM by fahd_zboot
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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 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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