] Online porn sites get about three times more visits than ] the top Web search engines, including market leader ] Google, a research firm said Thursday. ] ] Visits to the top three Web search engines %u2014 which ] virtually dominate their sector %u2014 accounted for 5.5% ] of all Internet visits by U.S. users during the week ] ending May 29, said Hitwise, a California-based company ] that tracks such activity. ] ] During that time, Google garnered 2.7% of all Web visits ] while Yahoo Search and MSN Search received 1.7% and 1.1% ] respectively, Bill Tancer, vice president of research at ] Hitwise, told Reuters. ] ] Google, which has become so popular that its name is ] synonymous with search, is moving toward an initial ] public offering that is expected to be a blockbuster. ] ] The three leading search providers fall into a ] subcategory Hitwise calls "Search Engines and ] Directories," which covers 1,944 Web search and directory ] sites. The subcategory, which accounted for 13.8% of all ] Internet visits, also includes AskJeeves.com, Yahoo.com ] and Microsoft's MSN.com. There is pornography on the web? Who knew? - LB Study: Web porn entices far more surfers than search |