Who would have thought that the Internet can be summed up in a few words, not by tech geeks, but by a musical writing pair who have gone on to win awards for their efforts. “The Internet is For Porn”, so goes the most popular song in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Avenue Q” written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, and the public—those who regularly surf at least—couldn’t agree more.

Proof of this is the fact that YouPorn.com, the highest trafficked adult website in the world, has an Alexa rating that is much higher than that of CNN’s. And with 10,280,138 visits in December 2007 according to Compete.com, YouPorn is poised to reach much greater heights this year.

But as speedy rises to the top of the Internet traffic game go, RedTube.com, a fairly new adult site, is faring rather well. According to the same Compete.com numbers, RedTube was the top gainer for December 2007, with 4,958,285 visitors.

Also making waves in Alexa rankings are PornHub.com, XTube.com and RealityKings.com, whose respective rankings of 166, 189 and 209 are higher than what that of the top newspaper in the world, The New York Times. Sneaking into the top 300 are XVideos.com, with 240; PornoTube.com, 243; and BangBros, of the notorious BangBus, with 256.

The popularity of adult websites is proof that for all the universality of the Internet, it still is dominated by the lonely and the horny, who show once and for all what the Internet really is for.

In any case, the relative newness of RedTube also shows that any one adult site could end up as one of the top websites in the world. Having good content is naturally a given, but some of these top adult sites have features and functionalities that give them a leg up over the competition. One such feature is that members can comment on videos, as well as review and rate pictures and clips. The said features allow for lots of user interaction, and lots of user interaction also means more activity for the site. Smaller websites can take a cue or two from these top adult sites, and soon they might just find themselves at the top of the Internet game. The online world, after all, could only crave for porn, porn and more porn.

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