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One Percent Porn

November 15, 2006
A U.S. government-commissioned study had claimed to have discovered that, based on search engine indexing, the Internet is comprised of one percent porn. As the conventional wisdom is that the Internet is 99 percent junk and one percent useful content (news sites, TMCnet, newspapers, retail Web sites, scholarly research, etc.) what's the other 98 percent of drivel? Teenagers' MySpace pages? Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan fiction? Canadian drug sites for Viagra (or should that be V!@GRA!!!) and snake oil pills? Tell-all sites devoted to celebrity airheads like Paris Hilton? And with regards to the latter, why do we need tell-all tabloid journalism to tell all about people who are clearly desperate to tell all about themselves to anyone who will listen anyway?

View the full article here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/11/15/internet.blocking.ap/index.html


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