Google: Pakistan is not Pornistan
By Bala Shah

FoxNews is one of the most powerful media groups in USA, and by extension many parts of the world.  It is the voice of conservative America. So much so, that as VP, Dick Cheney’s aides ensured every hotel he stayed in was told that the TV in his room had to be tuned to Fox.  On July 14, 2010, Fox News called Pakistan Pornistan for being the No. 1 Nation in sex web searches.

The Fox News article on July 14 (India time) reported

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They may call it the "Land of the Pure," but Pakistan turns out to be anything but.

The Muslim country, which has banned content on at least 17 websites to block offensive and blasphemous material, is the world's leader in online searches for pornographic material, FoxNews.com has learned.

So here's the irony: Google ranks Pakistan No. 1 in the world in searches for pornographic terms, outranking every other country in the world in searches per person for certain sex-related content.

Pakistan is top dog in searches per-person for "horse sex" since 2004, "donkey sex" since 2007, "rape pictures" between 2004 and 2009, "rape sex" since 2004, "child sex" between 2004 and 2007 and since 2009, "animal sex" since 2004 and "dog sex" since 2005, according to Google Trends and Google Insights, features of Google that generate data based on popular search terms.
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Techgoss had then published Google statistics on July 15 which showed that if Pakistan was No. 1, India and many Indian cities also made it to the list.  Techgoss research revealed that Google Trends showed in queries for the despicable crime of ‘Child Sex’, most of the searches are driven from Pakistan followed by India.  Guess which individual city in the world has the most searches for ‘Child Sex’?  None other than India’s capital Delhi. Delhi is followed by Chennai and Mumbai.  These are followed by cities from other countries.

Now, Google tells us that it was all one big mistake.  Apparently, Google cannot be relied on to give accurate facts on such sensitive topics. Therese Lim who works for Google’ communications and Public Affairs Southeast Asia team told Dawn newspaper

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We do our best to provide accurate data and to provide insights into broad search patterns, but the results for a given query, such as those reported in this story from Pakistan, may contain inaccuracies because the sample size is too small for the results to be statistically sound.
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If this is true, Google should publish a disclaimer prominently on its site.