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> I'm surprised Google never just bought imgur

Sex. Corporations tend to keep faaar away from everything related to porn, and a fair share of imgur images is nsfw content. Cleaning it up would be more trouble than it's worth.



I take it you're not familiar with Bing's #1 use case and specialty.


I'm not. Do tell!


Bing's video search has a lot of porn sites indexed and provides in-line preview of said videos.

It is by many considered better than purpose built porn search sites, such as pornmd.


Pron. Bing is better at pron.


> Corporations tend to keep faaar away from everything related to porn

Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr and many bids for SnapChat seem to be evidence to the contrary. Cable companies and premium channels also make a lot off of porn.

Porn is fine for large companies as long as they have some cover (the product isn't just porn).


Some nudie pics or vanilla porn would probably be the least of their worries. I can imagine that a service like imgur spends the bulk of their time cleaning up the nastier bits that inevitably creep their way into such a large site. How many companies really want to inherit a high maintenance mess for such little return? At least with Tumblr and Snapchat you have a strong brand. How many average Internet users outside of Reddit (or the 18-34 male demographic) have even heard of imgur?


Some huge name corporations are very involved in the porn industry. Clearly, that fact is not well known.




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