Angel and Tiggs

Let’s be smart. If you’re a blogger, it’s imperative to write about things people want to know. What’s the most searched keyword on the web? Sex. What’s the most used search engine on the web? Google. So I decided to make a little test using these infamous and popular words with the beta Google Trends. Here’s how it works, quoting from Google.

“Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. We then show you a graph with the results – our Search Volume Index graph. Below the search and news volume graphs, Trends displays the top regions, cities, and languages in which people searched for the first search term you entered.“

Hence, with that information in mind I went to www.google.com/trends and typed “sex”. The results are quite interesting.

Search for “sex” has been steadily increasing since 2004 and reached a peak in 2008 after news published by a certain LesEchecs.com using the words “latina sex young: sexy Latina sex and free Latina samples sex, free Latina sex”. The regions’ ranking is also quite intriguing. First ten are (from higher to lower): Vietnam, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey, Poland, Romania, Denmark and Belgium.

But hey, there’s something to be told here. It doesn’t mean that only because sex I popular that everyone is immune to these harsh economical days. I checked the most famous company involved with sex listed in the stock exchange: Playboy Enterprises. Ok, are you a Playboy investor? No? Even you will pass out with these numbers. PLA shares were sold by $ 1.19 on Oct 23rd. On Jan 2nd, the first year of trading in 2008, they were worth $8.89 according to Google Finance. They lost $7.80 in almost 10 months. The conclusion is clear: search for “sex” goes up, but sex stocks are down.