Study finds Web isn't teeming with sex

STUDY FINDS WEB ISN'T TEAMING WITH SEX
[SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News, AUTHOR: Elise Ackerman]
A confidential analysis of Internet search queries and a random sample of Web pages taken from Google and Microsoft's giant Internet indexes showed that only about 1 percent of all Web pages contain sexually explicit material. The analysis was presented in a federal court hearing last week in Philadelphia in a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The ACLU said the analysis, by Philip B. Stark, a professor of statistics at the University of California-Berkeley, did not appear to substantially help the Justice Department in its effort to prove that criminal penalties are necessary to protect minors from exposure to sexually explicit information on the Internet. The Justice Department had commissioned the study as part of an effort to resurrect the Children's Online Protection Act, which was signed by President Clinton in 1998, but was immediately challenged by the ACLU.
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