SEX vs. MONEY

More people look for “sex” than “money” — in Google search, that is.

Google Trends (www.google.com/trends), a tool from Google Labs that charts how often a particular term is entered relative to the total number of searches done, has proven that internet users search for the keyword “sex” more often than the keyword “money.”

Google’s data searches from 2004 up to 2006 shows that the number of searches for the term “sex” easily eclipsed the number of searches for the keyword “money,” which remained stagnant since 2004.

Searches for “sex” even experienced several spikes during the two-year horizon.


“Sex” also reigns supreme over “business.” More internet users Google the term “business” in contrast to “money,” but the number of searches still pale in comparison to “sex” which is double or triple the amount of searches for the keyword “business.”

Some are not that much interested to look for a “job” either. The number of searches for the term “job” is almost the same as the number of searches for the term “business.”

Overall, the number of searches for the terms “money,” “business,” and “job” combined is still no match to the magic word “sex.”

Does this mean that the world are really more interested in sex than making money? No wonder we overpopulated.