Newseater - Adult Edition

Shocking as it may seem, that spry online upstart Google is already ten years old. In addition to making us all feel old with that announcement, they’ve decided to celebrate their tenth birthday in the geekiest way possible: by giving us all a trip back in time with Google 2001, a modded version of the search index that only offers up pages that existed in the Google index back in January 2001.

In celebration of Google’s milestone, we’re taking a look at what porn was like way back in the day—after all, we can barely remember that long ago ourselves. After the jump, find out what the top five search results for “porn” were back then, and what they look like now. (And as an added bonus, we’ve enlisted the help of The Wayback Machine to show you how those sites looked like all those years ago. Can it be that it was all so simple then?)

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Top Five Search Results For “Porn” In January 2001
PornCity.Net — The First Free Adult Host (web.archive.org)
PornDirectory.Com - The Complete Free Porn Directory (web.archive.org)
mega porn links. complete listing of adult porn sites (web.archive.org)
Persian Kitty ’s Adult Links - www.persiankitty.com (web.archive.org)
Free Porn List - porn XXX sex Link list and Porno Directory (web.archive.org)

Top Five Search Results For “Porn” In October 2008
Full Free Porn Videos & DVDs - Sex, Porno, Porn Tube, Free XXX Porn (pornhub.com)
Porn & Sex, Porn, Free Porn Videos & Movies, Teen Pussy Porn & Big … (yobt.com)
Free Porn, Sex, Tube Videos, XXX Pics, Porno Movies - XNXX.COM (xnxx.com)
Free Porn Movies, Porn Tube Videos & XXX Porno Stars Having Sex (keezmovies.com)
BabesDosage.com - Your daily dosage of porn, 100% free porn (babesdosage.com)

(The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Though frankly, if we can’t be there ourselves we think PornHub is a vast improvement over PornCity for top hit.)

· Google 2001 (google.com)

Original post by Lux Alptraum

According to this press release masquerading as a “news” report, employers are reportedly worried about the so-called “porn modes” in the latest version of Internet Explorer and Google’s Chrome browser. We’re not sure what all the fuss is about, though — after all, we spend our whole work day looking at porn, and it just makes us more productive! (marketwatch.com)

Original post by Lux Alptraum

You may remember a couple of months back when an indicted pornographer wanted to use the “Google Defense” to prove his innocence in a obscentiy trial. As a legal question, obscenity is usually defined as some sort of violation of acceptable “community standards.” But how do you know what your community finds acceptable? Ask Google, of course! If people in your community enjoy searching for and reading about “butt sex,” then the back door must be acceptable—right?

People have been trying to answer these questions ever since Google Trends allowed them to examine global search statistics to determine both how often certain terms are being searched for but where they’re being searched from. For example, did you know that searches for “anal sex” are more popular in Herndon, Virginia than any other city in the U.S.? (We had our suspicions.) The folks at Debonair Magazine decided to use Google Trends to see exactly who likes what and where they like it. But we think that if you really want to examine community standards, it’s not enough to just know that people search about fucking—you need to compare naughty search terms (like “porn”, pussy”, and “dirt pipe milkshake”) with innocent and wholesome one. (like “puppies”, “rainbows”, and “root beer floats”). We know people are horny, but are they hornier than your average board game playing, candy-loving, LOLcat fan? (Or are they the same people?)

So would people in your town rather think about naked bodies or adorable puppies? Big purple dildos or (Orlando) Magic tricks? We recently conducted this highly unscientific experiment ourselves and the results may surprise you! Or not! But that’s science for you.

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· Google Trends (google.com)
· “Searching For Sex - Global Sex Trends Examined” (debonairmag.com)

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Previously: Google (Sex) Trends, World Porn Search Statistics

Original post by Dashiell Bennett

Those of you who have spent any time on the interweb searching for smut have surely run across the warning that accompanies any Blogspot blog that someone somewhere has deemed “objectionable.” Of course, Google would never actually “censor” content on their free web hosting service—they just put up a giant sign post blocking you from the site you’re trying to reach, and imply that you must be some sort of twisted perv for even wanting to see it. But if you’re okay with that you can go ahead and click through, you big freak. We could write a book about the silliness of that system, but we much prefer this more subtle form of protest: the “I Understand And I Wish To Continue” Award. It’s given out by one Blogspot blog to others that have been thrown behind that great beige wall because their erotic content is too hot for sensitive eyes. It almost makes us wish we were on Blogspot too so that we might be eligible to win one. (Almost, that is. We’re sure you understand.)

· The “I Understand and I Wish to Continue” Award (gatochy.blogspot.com; image via finenudes.blogspot.com)
· See also: Google Ghettoizes Sex Blogs (Boinkology)

Original post by Dashiell Bennett

Those of you who have spent any time on the ‘net searching for smut, have surely run across the warning that accompanies any Blogspot blog that someone somewhere deems “objectionable.” Of course, Google would never actually “censor” content on their free web hosting service—they just put up a giant sign post blocking you from the site you’re trying to reach, and implying that you must be some sort of twisted perv, but if you’re okay with that, then go ahead and click through, you big freak. We could write a book about the silliness of that system, but we much prefer this more subtle form of protest—the “I Understand And I Wish To Continue” Award. It’s given out by one Blogspot blog to others that have been thrown behind the great beige wall because their erotic content is too hot for sensitive eyes. It almost makes us wish we were on Blogspot too, so that we might be eligible to win one. (Almost. We’re sure you understand.)

· The “I Understand and I Wish to Continue” Award (gatochy.blogspot.com; image via finenudes.blogspot.com)
· See also: Google Ghettoizes Sex Blogs (Boinkology)

Original post by Dashiell Bennett