11 Sep 2007

Porn Google

The first image on a Google image search for 'porn'.

Have you ever Googled the word 'porn'? It's an interesting little journey, I must say, and absolutely nothing like what you would expect. It is certainly an eye-opener too for those who place so much faith in search engine matters.

You'd probably expect sites involving Playboy or Penthouse to top the list or at least come close to topping the list. But it's nothing of the sort. In fact, it's a list of sites that you'd probably never have heard of.

The whole of the first page is filled with free sites or pretty indeterminate content and it really is quite a strange affair. In fact, if you keep clicking a few pages on from that then it's pretty much the same story, it seems.

When you bear in mind that these free sites are offering, duh, free porn you would have though that the paysites would have made something of a gargantuan effort to eat into this search engine monopoly.

No such effort seems to have been forthcoming, which is quite strange to me when you consider that they would probably need the search engine placing a bit more to try and grab some of the traffic that the free sites dominate.

But then, search engine optimation has always been a complete mystery to me, and it is rife with airy-fairy theories that sound great on paper but never actually seem to work half the time.

Posted by Steve 11:38:00