Wikipedia to overtake porn

It’s a well-known fact that pornography drives the development of technology. Whether you’re talking about the Internet, VHS, or papyrus, porn pushed the envelope and paid the way for the development of the underlying media. Well, I hate to admit it, but it appears that pr0n is moving on:

As this Google trend clearly shows, the user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia is about to overtake porn. What does this mean? SERIOUS INFORMATION IS DISPLACING PORNOGRAPHY! Do we really think that people looking for articles on the history of corn farming are going to pay for advancements to the information superhighway? I hate to be a naysayer, but I think we’re headed towards the inevitable end of the internet.

Time to start studying video phones.

September 7, 2006 #
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  1. Jeffery
    Posted September 7, 2006 at 4:39 pm | Permalink

    This just infers that people don’t need to search for porn.

    I know where to find porn. I don’t need to ask Google.

  2. cameron
    Posted September 7, 2006 at 4:43 pm | Permalink

    You’re wrong.

  3. Anonymous
    Posted September 7, 2006 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

    Jeffery, the information IMPLIES. You are the one who INFERS. For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

  4. Daniel
    Posted September 7, 2006 at 6:02 pm | Permalink

    Are you sure those aren’t Wikipedia entries about Porn?

  5. robbie schmelzer
    Posted September 11, 2006 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    These are the funniest comments I have read in a while! Thank you for the laugh and those are really interesting stats on wiki.

  6. Nimit
    Posted September 30, 2006 at 10:58 pm | Permalink

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+wikipedia&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

    Though Wikipedia is on its way, IMO we still have a ways to go till it takes over porn.

  7. Cmdr. Pookie
    Posted January 2, 2007 at 8:51 am | Permalink

    What about searches for “boobs”, “topless”, “nudity”, etc. ? People looking for porn could use a variety of search terms (all of which would add up to way more traffic than the line shown on the chart). People searching for Wikipedia would only use “Wikipedia”, however, so it would not get the same “synonym boost”.

    Nice sentiment, though,

  8. Jack Flash
    Posted August 9, 2007 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    New things are always going to rise faster than something that is established. Even so, do not fret. Wikipedia will level out. The internet will not die unless there is another-better way to bring naked people into your house in the blink of an eye. And once we have interactive hologram rooms who’s gonna care about the internet?

  9. Dick Tator
    Posted August 17, 2007 at 3:07 am | Permalink

    Dude who on earth will look for porn on wiki?????

  10. Anonymous
    Posted September 14, 2007 at 4:29 am | Permalink

    You do realize that this is due to the fact that one can find more porn on Wikipedia than on Google? Don’t believe me?

    http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Wikipedia_Porn

    Yes, everything on that article is from Wikipedia!

  11. PORN IS A SIN
    Posted October 6, 2007 at 3:31 pm | Permalink

    PORN IS FUCKING SICK AND DISGUTSTING AND IT BECOMES AN ADDICTION LIKE MARIJUANNA OR ALCOHOL. IT IS A SIN THAT CHAINS YOU DOWN

  12. Inspector Porn
    Posted October 10, 2007 at 4:47 am | Permalink

    Hmmm where to start

    Porn is a sin if you dont like it dont view dont smoke it dont drink it who are you to think your point of view counts I say religion is a sin.

    Porn wiki vs Google as a webmaster who ranks well for porn on some well known search engines not Google im sorry to say you would be supprised that not so many guys search for it.

    I think guys and girls seeking porn may use porn directories and image searches more than Google serps.

  13. Jake Sharratt
    Posted January 30, 2008 at 8:44 am | Permalink

    I am kinda gay and like to look up porn
    But I don’t use google
    This trend is inaccurate and meaningless to society and its real intentions.

  14. dude
    Posted July 22, 2008 at 8:17 am | Permalink

    youporn, sex2ube, redtube …. those are all boosting up the searches for sure

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