Birmingham - Number 1 porn googling city in the world • Non-Gaming • General Non-gaming • Eurogamer.net

ssuellid 14 May 2006 08:56:59 19,142 posts
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bbc

Web surfers in Birmingham are more likely than those in any other city to search for pornography, according to internet search engine Google.
Google Trends analyses the type of searches made from different cities around the globe.

Manchester came second, followed by Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. Brentford, in Middlesex, was seventh.

sam_spade 14 May 2006 09:04:07 15,745 posts
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South Africa, as a nation, likes it more. The Finns are second to English language sites.

ssuellid 14 May 2006 09:09:27 19,142 posts
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Odd that - type in Eurogamer and Ireland is the no.1 nation.

sam_spade 14 May 2006 09:12:33 15,745 posts
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It's because Google guesses where the IP might be coming from, rather than knowing exactly.

UncleLou Moderator 14 May 2006 09:17:07 40,723 posts
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Who types "porn" if he's looking for porn, though? That sounds pretty ineffective to me.

ssuellid 14 May 2006 09:20:21 19,142 posts
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Do you use German or Enlish words for your porn search?

sam_spade 14 May 2006 09:24:43 15,745 posts
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UncleLou wrote:
Who types "porn" if he's looking for porn, though?

Brummies. It might just be KOTI, though.

ed 14 May 2006 11:13:47 260 posts
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can someone explain this?

quedex 14 May 2006 11:25:42 3,135 posts
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Truk wrote:
Check out the news stories on the right, particularly the top and bottom ones

"Vermont Probes Man With 70 Goats In House"
Bet that takes more than just bending over and thinking of England...

THFourteen 14 May 2006 11:29:25 54,987 posts
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LOL most manchester united fans are from...

MrWorf 14 May 2006 11:29:42 64,187 posts
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proof that the ipod is gay

ilmaestro 14 May 2006 13:27:36 32,932 posts
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Brum loves the Playstation 3 too.

ilmaestro 14 May 2006 13:32:58 32,932 posts
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Ouch.

silentbob 14 May 2006 13:34:45 29,527 posts
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Bertej wrote:
Proof the Americans are gayers

ROFL!

Simian 14 May 2006 13:35:43 599 posts
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News just in - Edinburgh loves the ladyboys . Waaaaay past Bangkok.

Edit: They make up for it for being no.1 jaffa cakes googlers though...

Edited by Simian at 13:37:58 14-05-2006

reality_cheque 15 May 2006 09:25:46 7,486 posts
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Anyone here from Rochdale?

We know what you're looking up...

terminalterror 15 May 2006 09:49:16 18,932 posts
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reality_cheque wrote:
Anyone here from Rochdale?

We know what you're looking up...

O_o

Hunam85 15 May 2006 10:50:57 4,114 posts
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Damn, there on to me!

/burns pc

reality_cheque 15 May 2006 11:35:22 7,486 posts
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Bill Door wrote:
Sheffields top on the teabagging stakes but brummies will be satisfied to know they're fourth

I like the way you can see teabagging was 'invented' in Feb 2004 from that graph

reality_cheque 15 May 2006 11:38:56 7,486 posts
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Brummies are also the UK people to feature on the top 10 searchers for Anal Sex, 4th in the world overall.

I like the way it gives you relevant news articles on the graphs so you can see how news has influenced the searches. (one of which tells me 32% of women have had anal in the last 6 months! that's quite a lot really, almost as many as gay men)

reality_cheque 15 May 2006 11:46:58 7,486 posts
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And [link=http://www.google.com/trends?q=bondage&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all">another UK title for Brum, and another, a rather shocking 5th place here, and a

terminalterror 15 May 2006 11:53:27 18,932 posts
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reality_cheque wrote:
I like the way it gives you relevant news articles on the graphs so you can see how news has influenced the searches. (one of which tells me 32% of women have had anal in the last 6 months! that's quite a lot really, almost as many as gay men)

That article seemingly caused a massive spike in searches

JaysonG 15 May 2006 12:08:05 830 posts
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/bows

Deleted user 15 May 2006 13:16:32

Anyone know why Birmingham actually appears so high? I'm guessing it's some kind of anomaly.

zErOb_cOOl 15 May 2006 13:31:43 3,237 posts
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Why does this sort of statistical nonsense always find its way onto the BBC news site?

I'm not from Birmingham, nor do I have any roots at all there, but this is just bollocks, as somewhere is bound to have a few more people that search for porn than somewhere else, even if its only 5 more people.

Its probably to do with the fact that Birmingham has a big student population or something.

/awaits all the "so what, the article isn't lying" comments

reality_cheque 15 May 2006 13:55:43 7,486 posts
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Well yes, somewhere does have to be top of the list, but the place that DID do the most searching for porn appears to be Birmingham.

Well done brummies, now get searching for felching pics. 4th is just not good enough.

Deleted user 15 May 2006 15:41:28

Truk wrote:
Perhaps Birmingham services more users than any of the other hubs?

I think this is the most likely.

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