June 7, 2004

Porn websites had more than three times the visitors of the major search engines combined during the last week in May, says Hitwise.

According to Melbourne, Australia-based Web-tracking firm Hitwise, visits to the top three search sites--Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search--accounted for just 5.5 percent of all Internet site visits during the week ending May 29.

Porn sites, lumped by Hitwise into a category appropriately dubbed “Adult,” received 18.8 percent of all Web visits in the same period.

When all search and directory sites--including those such as AskJeeves and MSN.com--are combined, the porn-versus-search skew doesn't look so bad.

Overall, search engines and directories accounted for 13.8 percent of the total Net visits during the week.

Source: TechWeb.com

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