Where did the porn go?

March 22, 2006 10:10 AM

Is it just me, or has Google become less and less useful as a porn-search tool?

It used to be that I could find scores of free galleries using Google. Now, every search just turns up a ton of paysites, and a few low-quality free sites.

What's the deal? Is Google sucking more? Are free galleries going the way of the dodo? Or do I just need to improve my porn-fu?

posted by kenoshakid to Computers & Internet (21 answers total)

It's the China effect.
posted by omidius at 10:16 AM on March 22, 2006

I would guess that free galleries are being subsumed into pay sites, or that the advertising of pay sites is so aggressive that the free galleries are being buried in the Google results.

Most likely, the free sites are switching over to a membership system. There is a slippery slope when it comes to running free sites; first, ads are adopted to offset server and bandwidth costs, but as the site gets more popular, it becomes necessary to pull in more income. Also, as the number of visitors increases, the potential profitability becomes too large to ignore. People will pay fairly high premiums for porn, so why not let them?

(IANA Porn Economist)
posted by jenovus at 10:18 AM on March 22, 2006

Ugh, fusker sites are the height of lame.

I think the problem is that porn site operators are constantly trying to game Google, far more then other types of sites, so naturally Google degrades those sites in its search rankings. It's really hard for Google to tell the difference between good porn and porn sites that jerk you around or whatever.

thehun.net and asianthumbs.org Asian thumbs are good, old school ways to find porn TGP Gallaries.

Try googling for "TGP".
posted by delmoi at 10:24 AM on March 22, 2006

Most likely, the free sites are switching over to a membership system. There is a slippery slope when it comes to running free sites

There really is no such thing as a 'free' porn site. They all exist as feeder sites to pay sites. But there's so much advertisement that you don't even really need to get a pay site subscription.
posted by delmoi at 10:27 AM on March 22, 2006

Some "free" galleries are blocking google image search, as you often can do clever site:www.nakedtoasters.com searches and get all of their pictures and none of their advertisements.

No idea on how to find them otherwise, though.
posted by qvantamon at 10:47 AM on March 22, 2006

And oh, yeah, remember that finding porn in a search engine is most often a plague.

I remember the old altavista times when you'd search for _anything_ (like refrigerators) and the first 5 pages would be "XXX refrigerators underage refrigerators fucking fetish". Right before the dawn of google I'd add -xxx to any search on altavista by reflex.
posted by qvantamon at 10:50 AM on March 22, 2006

delmoi writes "It's really hard for Google to tell the difference between good porn and porn sites that jerk you around or whatever."

Wait, aren't they the same thing?
posted by orthogonality at 10:51 AM on March 22, 2006

If you want quick links, try sublime directory.

There's also guba, which is a pay to play but it searches usenet.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 10:53 AM on March 22, 2006

for movies, you could try searches like:

+inurl:avi|mpg|wmv site:megaupload.com
+inurl:avi|mpg|wmv site:rapidshare.de
posted by indigo4963 at 10:58 AM on March 22, 2006

Dude, askjolene.com. For example, the lovely Eva Angelina.
posted by zerolives at 11:13 AM on March 22, 2006

You say Google sucks because it isn't littered with porn. I love MetaFilter.
posted by cribcage at 11:41 AM on March 22, 2006

My parents (both teachers) and my brother (a HS student) all noticed within days of each other that dogpile.com (a meta-tag search engine that used to be The Junk in, what, 1999?) was both not blocked by school filters AND full of porn on every search.

AFAIK they didn't pay for it... so it must be a Google bug feature.
posted by SuperNova at 11:57 AM on March 22, 2006

Dunno why the slag on fusker sites was made. I find a lot of decent stuff thanks to fusker.lewww.com. And I'll check out firefusk too. ;)

thehun.net is cool, but a lot of it is commercial now. Often the same submitters.

For great pr0n, fire up bittorrent. get an empornium.us account, and be a good perv. ;)
posted by drstein at 12:01 PM on March 22, 2006

You say Google sucks because it isn't littered with porn. I love MetaFilter.
I will only love MetaFilter when it's littered with porn.
posted by qvantamon at 12:17 PM on March 22, 2006

As a brief aside, can anyone explain how fusker works? I gather that it is some kind of protocol that various people/groups have used to suck images from sites and make the otherwise available. It's easy to find lots of sites that feed fuskered images, but I've found it impossible to find information on fusker itself.
posted by alms at 12:43 PM on March 22, 2006

I hear that SexByRSS does exactly what it says. I hear you get to pick your preferred categories, and type of media, and it gives you a charming little RSS feed of free good stuff.

I hear the clips are a little shortish, though.
posted by booksandlibretti at 1:28 PM on March 22, 2006

alms: The fusker site lets you say "At this base URL, show me 001.jpg through 400.jpg all on one page". In return, your search is public so other people can see it. Wikipedia expands a bit.
posted by mendel at 5:26 PM on March 22, 2006

Webgoggles isn't a bad choice.
posted by KirTakat at 5:29 PM on March 22, 2006

You might want to check your Advanced Search preferences in Google and ensure that Safe Search filtering is turned off.
posted by superfem at 6:55 PM on March 22, 2006

um, why do you care? I'm not saying y'all shouldn't be nasty little porn-fiends, but, well, this is the age of BitTorrent.

Have a look at TorrentSpy and then tell me you can't find porn.
posted by polyglot at 8:54 PM on March 22, 2006

Wow, usenet is really dead huh?
posted by Arthur Dent at 12:07 PM on March 23, 2006