What Are People Looking for on the Internet? New Survey by Leading Search Engine Finds the Answer: Sex!!!FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 1999--The majority of people searching the vastness of the Internet seem have one thing on their mind: sex. A new survey by Cyber411, the leading parallel-search engine web site (http://www.cyber411.com), compiled the Top 10 word searches for a single day and discovered the winner was..."sex." Of the nearly 300,000 searches recorded on Cyber411 during a single day in March, the subject of "sex" took up 41% of all the searches. The remaining nine of the Top 10 searches were evenly divided between technological, political and career research. How should one view the focus on salacious sa·la·cious adj. 1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious. 2. Lustful; bawdy. [From Latin sal cyber-searching? "Whether this is a reflection of the state of the digital world or whether everyone searching the Internet on that particular day was in an unusually jolly mood is open to debate," said Mark Galione, vice-president of marketing for Cyber Networks Inc., the parent company of Cyber411. "While the most titillating tit·il·late v. tit·il·lat·ed, tit·il·lat·ing, tit·il·lates v.tr. 1. To stimulate by touching lightly; tickle. 2. To excite (another) pleasurably, superficially or erotically. subject imaginable would inevitably attract the most attention, the wealth of inquiries into more sober subjects clearly shows the sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of the average search engine user in harvesting the Internet for professional, academic and responsible purposes." The Top 10 subjects from the Cyber411 survey are: 1. Sex 2. MP3 3. Jobs 4. C++ (software tools) 5. Line monitors (computer and/or television monitoring equipment) 6. Space 7. The U.S. Constitution 8. Perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. 9. Associate programs 10. Windows 98 Runners-up search subjects to the Top Ten list were: Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. , stocks, automobiles, jewelry displays, "piscines" (swimming pools to the Francophonic searchers) and "emuladores" (games to the Spanish-speaking searchers). Cyber411 is a parallel-search engine which simultaneously harnesses 16 of the top search engines on a single query within a specific time frame designated by the computer user. Cyber411 is designed to increase the accuracy, speed and easy of online research by eliminating all duplicate URLs from the search engine process, thus preventing repetitive responses while providing the fullest slate of web resources to match any query. The 16 search engines employed in the Cyber411 search are AltaVista, DejaNews, Excite, Galaxy, GoTo, HotBot, LookSmart, Lycos, Magellan, Northern Light, PlanetSearch, search.com, Thunderstone thun·der·stone n. 1. Any of various mineral concretions, such as a belemnite, formerly supposed to be thunderbolts. 2. Archaic A flash of lightning conceived as a stone; a thunderbolt. , WebCrawler, What-U-Seek and Yahoo. For more information, please e-mail info@cyber411.com or visit the Cyber411 web site at http://www.cyber411.com. Cyber411 is a trademark of Cyber Networks Inc., 4631 NW 31st Avenue, Suite 265, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309; tel. 800-CYBER-411. All media inquiries: Phil Hall Phil Hall may refer to:
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