අවසන් දින කිහිපය ගෙවී යමින් ඇති 2013 වසරේදී අන්තර්ජාලය ඔස්සේ Sex සෙවීමේ ලොව පළමු තැන ශ්රී ලංකාව දිනා සිටින බව google ආයතන වාර්තා වල දැක්වේ.
Google විසින් නිකුත් කර තිබෙන එම දත්තවලට අනුව මේ වසරේදී ලිංගිකත්වය පිළිබඳ වැඩිම සෙවීම් සංඛ්‍යාවක් වාර්තා වී තිබෙන්නේ ශ්රී ලංකාවෙන් වන අතර රට තුල නුගේගොඩ නගරය පළමු තැනටත් හෝමාගම සහ කොළඹ, දෙවන තුන්වන ස්ථානවලටත් පත්ව සිටී.
මේ අතර ලිංගිකත්වය පිළිබඳ ලැයිස්තුවේ දෙවැනි තැන සිට පස්වැනි තැන දක්වා ඉන්දියාව, ටිමෝරය, ඉතියෝපියාව සහ බංගලාදේශය රැඳී සිටී.පසුගිය 2012 වසරේදීද ශ්රී ලංකාව google සෙවුම් යන්ත‍්‍රය ඔස්සේ සොය ලොව පළමු තැන දිනා ගත්තේය.
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According to data released by Google trends, Sri Lanka has the highest volume of internet searches for the term ‘ sex.’ Sri Lanka has topped the list beating counter part India which has been pushed to second place.This is according to Google Trends, a public web facility that shows how often a particularsearch-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.
Despite being one of the least tolerant countries when it comes to websites contained explicit content, Sri Lanka has retained the first place for the third consecutive year.The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission had recently revealed that measures have been taken to prohibit over 1500 websites over the past three years. Sri Lanka first topped the list in 2011 for the highest volume of searches on the word ‘sex’.
Sri Lanka topped the list of having searched for the word ‘sex’ in 2013, while India followed at the second spot, Google reported.
According to statistics issued by Google, Sri Lanka came first for the third consecutive year since 2011 in the internet ‘sex’ search category.When it came to the breakdown of data by cities, Nugegoda, Homagama and Colombo topped the list of people Googling the term ‘sex’ in 2013 in the Western Province, while Kandy and Galle came first in their respective provinces.
According to Google Trends, the search for the term peaked in Sri Lanka during the week April 14-20, 2013, even as the partial data for December 08-14, 2013 showed it as second-highest week during which the term was Googled in 2013.
According to the list of sex-searching countries India, Timor, Ethiopia and Bangladesh moved from second place to fifth place.
Meanwhile, Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) Anusha Pelpita said about 1,500 pornographic web sites had been blocked during the past three years.
“Issues arise when underage children searched for this kind of sites. The Education Ministry also has a responsibility to discipline children,” he said.
“This issue could not be stopped by only blocking sites,” he said adding that future steps would be taken to stop children from searching for ‘sex’ on the internet.(DS)
According to statistics issued by Google, Sri Lanka came first for the third consecutive year since 2011 in the internet ‘sex’ search category.When it came to the breakdown of data by cities, Nugegoda, Homagama and Colombo topped the list of people Googling the term ‘sex’ in 2013 in the Western Province, while Kandy and Galle came first in their respective provinces.
According to Google Trends, the search for the term peaked in Sri Lanka during the week April 14-20, 2013, even as the partial data for December 08-14, 2013 showed it as second-highest week during which the term was Googled in 2013.
According to the list of sex-searching countries India, Timor, Ethiopia and Bangladesh moved from second place to fifth place.
Meanwhile, Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) Anusha Pelpita said about 1,500 pornographic web sites had been blocked during the past three years.
“Issues arise when underage children searched for this kind of sites. The Education Ministry also has a responsibility to discipline children,” he said.
“This issue could not be stopped by only blocking sites,” he said adding that future steps would be taken to stop children from searching for ‘sex’ on the internet.(DS)
