What is this world comin' to?

Interesting article on a Tech reporting site.

"We were just discussing the many reasons why mobile porn might not really
catch on (the main one being that TV and internet porn caught on because they
let otherwise embarrassed people enjoy the porn in the privacy of their own
homes, while mobile takes it out into the world, where it may be less appealing
-- not to even mention the tiny screen). However, with a counter point come the
folks at Google. With Google making a big push to move into the mobile space,
the company has been looking into what people are searching for on their mobile
phones. Turns out, indeed, it's all about sex. Mobile phone searchers are much
more likely to be hunting down porn than desktop surfers. In fact, 20% of all
mobile search queries are for adult content vs. 8.5% on the desktop (which, by
the way, inadvertently lets slip the percentage of porn searches on Google that
Larry Page tried not to reveal to Time Magazine just recently). The Googlers'
explanation for this: "people regard their phones as intensely personal
devices," which, frankly, seems like a little more than we want to know. Perhaps
we really have misjudged the libidinous nature of those on the go -- or perhaps
there's some odd correlation between early adopters and porn on the go. Oddly,
though, PDA users are a bit more chaste -- with only 5% searching for adult
content. I guess people view their PDAs "just as friends," rather than with the
intimacy of a mobile phone. "

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