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i heard it offhand from an acquaintance who did a google internship that google has to downrank porn sites by several orders of magnitude, otherwise all that wo
by caycep 15y ago
i heard it offhand from an acquaintance who did a google internship that google has to downrank porn sites by several orders of magnitude, otherwise all that would ever come up in google searches would be porn...
- luser001 15y agoI call bs. Everything I've seen about the link structure of the Internet indicates that this is false.
- patrickaljord 15y agoYou are correct, Matt Cutts explains it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Dn87YqI73mY http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D...
- naryad 15y agoI noticed this a lot with the regional languages. For example searchig for a simple word 'bhabhi' (this means brother's wife) returns a whole lot of erotic stories instead of the meaning of it or its usage etc. Looks like Google does not downrank regional porn/erotica sites.
- kragen 15y agoMaybe porn is more popular in India? I mean, the US state with highest porn subscriptions is Utah, which is also the most religiously conservative, and India's even more so.