Mobile porn's fast growth

Parents might want to know that – although Cingular, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile "have voluntarily chosen not to directly offer any adult content for download" to phones, the San Jose Mercury News reports - there's certainly a work-around on Web-enabled phones. "Many mobile phones now have Web browsers, which can make videos, photos or text available for download with a credit card. Sales of dirty videos, naughty chats and pornographic images over mobile phones reached about $500,000 globally in 2004." The Merc cites Juniper Research data showing that figure to be $2.1 billion by 2009. The Web on phones is the explanation for that exponential growth. But right now, Google has found, porn accounts for about 20% of all searches conducted via cellphone – "quite a bit more than the 8.5% [of searches] conducted from the desktop" computer, a San Jose Mercury News blog cites Google researchers as saying.