Today I ran across (via Lifehacker) a new and very cool search engine: zoo.com. From the site:
Zoo brings together search results from Google, Yahoo!, and Wikipedia, as well as the latest news from ABC, Fox and Yahoo! News […] Here at Zoo, we do our best to filter out sexually explicit web search results. We do not comprehensively filter any other content.
This seems like a great idea and place to have your kids begin their internet searches safely. Of course CNN reported today that only 1% of US websites are pornographic. But I don’t trust that.
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Is 1 percent of Web sites being pornographic a lot or a little? Let’s do the math.
In 2004, Google claimed to have indexed over 4.2 billion web pages (http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/sizeofweb.html). Assuming an average number of web pages for all sites, 1 percent of 4.2 billion is 42 million–that’s 42 million distinct pages of pornography on the Internet.
If we use the domain count increase over the past 2 years as an indicator for the increase in websites and WebPages (approximately 20 percent), the number of pornographic web pages swells to roughly 60 million.
So is 1 percent of the Web a lot of porn? Let’s put it this way, if someone spent 30 seconds to view each Web page of porn, it would take about 57 years for that person to view it all.
Or better, if you had a Playboy/Penthouse magazine that had 60 million pages in it–not including the articles of course–the magazine would be as taller than any skyscraper on earth, taller than Mt. Everest–in fact the magazine would be approximately 180,000 feet tall, 3.4 miles high.
That … is a lot of porn.
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