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MiKandi: One Very Compelling Reason To Go Droid

Lux Alptraum — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:30:01 EST

Of all the things Android does, the most enticing would have to be "interact with MiKandi"—an unfortunately named adult app store. Sorry, Apple fanatics; this is one battle the family-friendly iPhone loses. Decisively. (gizmodo.com + mikandi.com, unrelated thumbnail)

Dildroid: Teledildonics For Android-Enabled Phones

Lux Alptraum — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:30:01 EDT

Sure, we've heard a lot about how the new iPhone is going to be the best sex toy ever—but until the app store approves an equivalent to Dildroid, we're not buying it.

Not only is it an app that turns your phone into a multispeed vibrator—it's also an app with a downright adorable interface. Just look at this guy! He's like the Hello Kitty vibe of teledildonics!

· Dildroid (mobidroid.com, via slashdong.org)

Google Okays Cellphone Vibrator App

Lux Alptraum — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:45:00 EST

Are you annoyed that the iPhone app store keeps censoring all the fun applications? You may be happier with a G1—just look what Google's letting into their app store. (appscout.com, thumbnail)

China: No Porn For You!

auryn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Internet giant Google China issues formal apology for being too slow, in the Chinese government's estimation, to remove all links to porn sites from its search engine.

The crackdown on websites that are "threatening morals by spreading pornography and vulgarity" continues in China, targeting sites like Baidu, Google and Sina.com. TV reports actually showed government officials hauling digital equipment from offices. We're glad we live in the good ole U S of A. Even though our own government may have made us sad for a good, oh, eight years, at least we still have our porn!

Via The Register: Sci/Tech News for the World. (theregister.co.uk)

Online Porn: Then Vs. Now

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:35:10 EDT

Shocking as it may seem, that spry online upstart Google is already ten years old. In addition to making us all feel old with that announcement, they've decided to celebrate their tenth birthday in the geekiest way possible: by giving us all a trip back in time with Google 2001, a modded version of the search index that only offers up pages that existed in the Google index back in January 2001.

In celebration of Google's milestone, we're taking a look at what porn was like way back in the day—after all, we can barely remember that long ago ourselves. After the jump, find out what the top five search results for "porn" were back then, and what they look like now. (And as an added bonus, we've enlisted the help of The Wayback Machine to show you how those sites looked like all those years ago. Can it be that it was all so simple then?)

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Top Five Search Results For "Porn" In January 2001
PornCity.Net — The First Free Adult Host (web.archive.org)
PornDirectory.Com - The Complete Free Porn Directory (web.archive.org)
mega porn links. complete listing of adult porn sites (web.archive.org)
Persian Kitty 's Adult Links - www.persiankitty.com (web.archive.org)
Free Porn List - porn XXX sex Link list and Porno Directory (web.archive.org)

Top Five Search Results For "Porn" In October 2008
Full Free Porn Videos & DVDs - Sex, Porno, Porn Tube, Free XXX Porn (pornhub.com)
Porn & Sex, Porn, Free Porn Videos & Movies, Teen Pussy Porn & Big ... (yobt.com)
Free Porn, Sex, Tube Videos, XXX Pics, Porno Movies - XNXX.COM (xnxx.com)
Free Porn Movies, Porn Tube Videos & XXX Porno Stars Having Sex (keezmovies.com)
BabesDosage.com - Your daily dosage of porn, 100% free porn (babesdosage.com)

(The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Though frankly, if we can't be there ourselves we think PornHub is a vast improvement over PornCity for top hit.)

· Google 2001 (google.com)

According to this press release masquerading...

Lux Alptraum — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:05:10 EDT

According to this press release masquerading as a "news" report, employers are reportedly worried about the so-called "porn modes" in the latest version of Internet Explorer and Google's Chrome browser. We're not sure what all the fuss is about, though — after all, we spend our whole work day looking at porn, and it just makes us more productive! (marketwatch.com)

Boobs Vs. Ice Cream: What Would Your City Rather Lick?

Dashiell Bennett — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:40:03 EDT

You may remember a couple of months back when an indicted pornographer wanted to use the "Google Defense" to prove his innocence in a obscentiy trial. As a legal question, obscenity is usually defined as some sort of violation of acceptable "community standards." But how do you know what your community finds acceptable? Ask Google, of course! If people in your community enjoy searching for and reading about "butt sex," then the back door must be acceptable—right?

People have been trying to answer these questions ever since Google Trends allowed them to examine global search statistics to determine both how often certain terms are being searched for but where they're being searched from. For example, did you know that searches for "anal sex" are more popular in Herndon, Virginia than any other city in the U.S.? (We had our suspicions.) The folks at Debonair Magazine decided to use Google Trends to see exactly who likes what and where they like it. But we think that if you really want to examine community standards, it's not enough to just know that people search about fucking—you need to compare naughty search terms (like "porn", pussy", and "dirt pipe milkshake") with innocent and wholesome one. (like "puppies", "rainbows", and "root beer floats"). We know people are horny, but are they hornier than your average board game playing, candy-loving, LOLcat fan? (Or are they the same people?)

So would people in your town rather think about naked bodies or adorable puppies? Big purple dildos or (Orlando) Magic tricks? We recently conducted this highly unscientific experiment ourselves and the results may surprise you! Or not! But that's science for you.

· Google Trends (google.com)
· "Searching For Sex - Global Sex Trends Examined" (debonairmag.com)

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Previously: Google (Sex) Trends, World Porn Search Statistics

Warning: Boobs Ahead. Do You Understand And Wish To Continue?

Dashiell Bennett — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:55:51 EDT

Those of you who have spent any time on the interweb searching for smut have surely run across the warning that accompanies any Blogspot blog that someone somewhere has deemed "objectionable." Of course, Google would never actually "censor" content on their free web hosting service—they just put up a giant sign post blocking you from the site you're trying to reach, and imply that you must be some sort of twisted perv for even wanting to see it. But if you're okay with that you can go ahead and click through, you big freak. We could write a book about the silliness of that system, but we much prefer this more subtle form of protest: the "I Understand And I Wish To Continue" Award. It's given out by one Blogspot blog to others that have been thrown behind that great beige wall because their erotic content is too hot for sensitive eyes. It almost makes us wish we were on Blogspot too so that we might be eligible to win one. (Almost, that is. We're sure you understand.)

· The "I Understand and I Wish to Continue" Award (gatochy.blogspot.com; image via finenudes.blogspot.com)
· See also: Google Ghettoizes Sex Blogs (Boinkology)

And speaking of fantasy worlds: it should...

Lux Alptraum — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:55:11 EDT

And speaking of fantasy worlds: it should be obvious by now, but if you build a virtual environment on the interweb the perverts will always come and stake their claim in it sooner or later. Which is to say that although Google may do all it can to keep sex and "sex rooms" out of Lively, we all know it's a losing battle. (avn.com)

The obscenity trial of Ray Guhn Productions...

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:43:22 EDT

The obscenity trial of Ray Guhn Productions in Florida has ended in a plea deal—interestingly, the defendants pled guilty to financial and racketeering charges, not the obscenity ones—which means we won't get to see the "Google apple pie orgy" defense in action. That's too bad, because we really love pie. (pnj.com)

Obscenity A La Mode?

Jonnobot — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:40:09 EDT

Max Hardcore might have been getting all the attention lately, but another obscenity trial in Florida is currently underway where the defense is using Google search stats to prove that "community standards" are a lot broader than some people might think: apparently, searching for the term "orgy" is just as all-American as searching for "apple pie". (No word on people who search for "apple pie orgy", though—maybe even community standards have their limits.) (freespeechcoalition.com + nytimes.com)

A Manhattan doctor who was being sued by...

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:50:09 EDT

A Manhattan doctor who was being sued by three former employees for sexual harrasment (i.e. allegedly emailing them a lot of dirty pictures) ended up suing them himself for giving him an "incurable Internet disease." (i.e., having his name end up on a bunch of porn sites when someone searches for it on Google.) The case was just thrown out, because apparently the best way to keep your name from being associated with porn on Google is to not sue people for associating your name with porn on Google. That stuff always ends up on the internet, you know. (nypost.com + searchenginewatch.com; thumbnail via Doctor's Adventures

And in domestic surveillance news this week......

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:40:14 EDT

And in domestic surveillance news this week... be careful where you flash your tits, because Google Maps is watching. (Actually we'll be watching too, but you don't have to worry about us archiving your boobs in our database for posterity. Unless they're really nice boobs.) (Gawker)

We're tickled that someone tried to use...

Jonnobot — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:23:22 EDT

We're tickled that someone tried to use the new editable Google Maps feature to change the website of their local Republican party office to Fleshbot.com, but were not so tickled to find out that they couldn't because we "may be inappropriate" somehow. If they only knew what we know about those wild Clackamas County Republicans they'd see we weren't so inappropriate after all ... but we're not telling. (readwriteweb.com)

Keeping the kids away from the porn is hard...

Lux Alptraum — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:42:25 EST

Keeping the kids away from the porn is hard work, but somebody has to do it; the question is who? Vivid's Steven Hirsch wants to see Google and Yahoo take an aggressive stand and develop new technologies to verify the ages of people searching for online porn. Because we all know there has to be a foolproof way to keep horny adolescents from accessing RustyTrombone.com. Er, isn't there? (afp.google.com)

Despite being the No. 1 search almost everywhere...

Dashiell Bennett — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:28:35 EST

Despite being the No. 1 search almost everywhere else, "sex" is Googled less frequently in China than "stocks" and other banking terms, which probably has nothing to do with the fact that government censors watch over every internet user like disapproving hound dogs. Nope, nothing to see here. (chinadaily.com.cn)

Looks like online and print naked babe emporium...

Fleshbot — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:48:28 EST

Looks like online and print naked babe emporium Perfect 10 has lost its appeal against web outlets like Amazon and Google to get them to stop using thumbnail images of its copyrighted material. Which means that your right to look at eye-strainingly teeny tiny pictures of hot boobs is still safe ... for now. (avn.com; thumbnail via Perfect 10)

Apparently, some Google News readers get...

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:50:07 EDT

Apparently, some Google News readers get bent out of shape over having to see an uncircumcised penis in the middle of their headlines. Well, do they want information they can use or not? (seroundtable.com)

Cracked performs a much needed scientific...

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:59:32 EDT

Cracked performs a much needed scientific study to determine which of the popular female names bring you the most nudity when plugged into Google Image Search. These are the questions of our age and we must have answers. (cracked.com)

Lifehacker saves our butts once again by...

Dashiell Bennett — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:23:30 EDT

Lifehacker saves our butts once again by showing us how to search Google without the overlords keeping tabs on you. (Maybe.) Oh, who are we kidding? Everyone on the planet already knows how we feel about tentacles. (Lifehacker)