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Re:Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country by ScottWhigham on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @02:49PM (#5370304)
Some of these just come across as though someone said, "We have to come up with ten search terms for each state and country - do something so that every location gets ten results!":

1) Kentucky's #1 search term is "free gay porn" - pretty specific relative to all the other terms elsewhere

2) Iowa's #6 is "backroom casting couch" but Wyoming's #3 is "brcc". That's either poor data warehousing practices, or an intentional choice to say "People who type the term in are differentiated from people who use the acronym." I'm assuming that it's poor data warehousing or small sample size given how "milf" is in almost every state but not one state has the fully-spelled out version.

3) Mississippi's results are skewed relative to what most people think about Mississippi. For a state that is supposed to be 60% Caucasian[1], their top search terms are not very Caucasian-like. I'm thinking small sample size here.

4) Connecticut's #10 result is "lisa ann"

5) Maine has both "ebony" and "black" as top search terms

6) Most of the South American listings have some variation of the country name.

7) Every result in Peru is gay. Clearly this is either small sample size, marketing, or "other".

I'm surprised more people aren't focusing on the "dirty data" (pun intended). Clearly something is weird with the data - it's either working on small sample sizes, or there's been some poor work done to get it to this point (not enough work done, for example).

[1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28000.html

Re:Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country by saraid216 on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @06:07PM (#5371449)
"lisa ann" comes up in a large number of countries, too. I'm really not sure how to interpret that.

Israel's #3 search was "college rules". Not "college".

Nigeria's #3 search was "things i jack off to".

Re:Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country by Oxxide on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @05:05PM (#5371114)
milf isn't a great acronym to use for your example, it is exclusively used as "milf" and very rarely fulled "spelled out" unless you're quoting American Pie.

good points though.