Porn 3X more popular than searches according to tracking firm
 

And still the search engines treat us like shit!
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From CNN MONEY:

Porn 3X more popular than searches

June 4, 2004: 12:42 PM EDT

Tracking firm finds that 18.8% of all U.S. users went to 'adult' sites, 5.5% went to search engines.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online porn sites get about three times more visits than the top Web search engines, including market leader Google Inc., a research firm said Thursday.

Web sites categorized as "adult" accounted for about 18.8 percent of all Internet visits by U.S. users in the week ending May 29.

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Meanwhile, the category that contains search engines dominated by Yahoo, MSN and Google, accounted for about 5.5 percent, according to Hitwise Inc., a California-based company that tracks Web use.

During that time, Google garnered 2.7 percent of all Web visits while Yahoo Search and MSN Search received 1.7 percent and 1.1 percent respectively, Bill Tancer, vice president of research at Hitwise, told Reuters.

My stats reflect that my bookmarkers are close to the 18.8% but my SE referrers are quite a bit more at 12.4%.

That just goes to show that if you put out a quality link list or tgp, surfers will bookmark you & start their surfing day with you :)

Of course, the SE surfers are rather nice as well :D

GG makes and excellent point. If you build a good site that is found on an SE then hopefully you will get a bookmark. You can skip the SE hit the next time around entiely.