. . . so it seems, from all the obscene e-mail SPAM that I used to get (thankfully, I got a new e-mail address and the problem disappeared). When I look up Winnie the Pooh or rabbits in a search engine and get porn in there somehow, there's something wrong!

Love it or hate it, the Web has revolutionized porn and vice versa. For the porn industry, suddenly everyone's a potential customer. And with the cost of spamming hundreds of thousands at around a penny, it's an unbeatable business proposition. Not only are the porn guys driving traffic, they are turning that traffic into profits. Other industries have been studying porn revenue models for a while now, and now porn guys are starting to have an influence on the growing field of search engine optimization.