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February 23, 2006
Mobile porn
Mobile porn: Seems like this must mean something significant, but I'm a bit too caffeine-deficient at the moment to figure out what it might be. From New Scientist: "Computer scientists Maryan Kamvar and Shumeet Baluja analysed 1 million searches made using the firm's mobile search software. They found that 'adult' material constituted 20 per cent of the searches on cellphones, but only 5 per cent on PDAs. Just 8.5 per cent of searches on desktop computers are for adult material." More details in this 10-page PDF. I'm not sure whether "Google's XHTML server logs" are completely restricted to mobile, particularly considering the anomaly they saw with the number of URLs as search terms. Lots of additional data there, though, about how search terms vary by the device form-factor.
Posted by John Dowdell at February 23, 2006 3:15 PM