Friday, October 29, 2004

SEX on the Internet

Ok now that I have gotten your attention....

I saw this new study on MSNBC.com etitled, "Experts: Web searches for sex declining." Apparently in 1997 20% of the web searches were on sex. Now that number has dropped to 5%.

It said that people are using the web more as an everyday tool and are not as enamored by it as they were 7 years ago. People are using the internet for e-business or e-commerce more as that type of usage increased by 86%.

The article continues to talk about how people still search for things pretty much the same was as they had in 1997. They use one to two words and they rarely look beyond the first page of results. There is currently a debate raging on one my email lists as to whether the users are unsophisticated and just grabbing what they can or if they are more sophisticated and finding the results they need in the first page.

Think it over and let me know what you think. Happy Halloween.

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