A rare, and excellent, article about how one of the world’s biggest sites is keeping tabs on its users…who happen to be porn aficionados.
We hear a lot about Big Data, but we don’t usually get many easy-to-relate-to examples of it. Well, look no further: it’s the porn world to the rescue.
Montreal-based Pornhub recently released some thoroughly engrossing statistics about online porn consumption in a number of countries, including Canada. As one of the biggest websites in the world – it generally ranks around the 75th most trafficked according to Alexa, which is more than the Huffington Post, Netflix or even the Pirate Bay – Pornhub is privy to a lot of revealing information, and we’re not even talking about the thousands of free sex videos it hosts.
The folks behind the site have insights on things like what days and months are most popular for porn consumption, who is searching for what, and how… er, long certain people last. According to the site’s blog – which, unlike its main site, is perfectly…
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Posted on January 28, 2014
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