Monday 9 January 2012

RampantMates.com Live Webcam Sex Launched

We're pleased to annouce RampantMates.com -  our new live webcam sex site.


RampantMates.com allows you to browse amatuer girls and guys as well as pornstars who often appear online. Below is an outline of the categories available for your live webcam sex pleasure:


Wednesday 4 January 2012

New Year Porn Pic Candy!

So we'll kick off the new year blog post with some hot girl on girl pics. Enjoy! And remember to porn search using rampantspider.com with over 2 millions movies indexed. Create your own folders and keep your collection all in one discreet place.












Tuesday 20 December 2011

The Future of Porn Online

This weeks blog is focused on the future of adult on the Internet and looking at the porn landscape on the web of today. I'll take a look at the Industry voice and also the consumer and highlight trends emerging for the next few years.

The Porn Industry

Like it or loathe it, porn is the 'art' of sex entertainment. Why is sex entertaining? Don't really need to answer that one, mix in a little animal instinct, emotion and curiosity and you have a recipe for a hugely creative subject.

Although porn is synonymous with a lot of bad practises, it's important not to isolate itself as the perpetrator and anyone who deals with it as the enemy. Yes, it has a bad reputation online, something I'm keen to deconstruct and to see how and why this happened but also take the time to look at what's good about the Industry.

So why did porn get itself into such a poor state? Why are there non-targeted ads everywhere, popups not seen since web circa 1998 and sites setup just to link you to places you didn't know you were going? It screams greed, scammers and webmasters only out for themselves - they don't care about their users. This is not true of everyone but looking back at how it's progressed online, it's easy to see why this happened.

Traffic

It's no secret that porn keywords make up a large proportion of Internet searches and traffic seeking porn everyday is in the 100's of millions across the web. It is massively popular. This in itself attracts a lot of webmasters seeking a self-sustained lifestyle by running their own porn site.

Get Rich Quick

We spend most our lives working for money so to get rich quick is hugely enticing.

Prior to the tube revolution in around 2005, Internet pornography was mostly available behind paid subscriptions which brought in steady income for many webmasters. These webmasters could easily setup affiliate systems and make the promise to others about 'getting rich quick' and offer attractive bonuses and commissions to those who drove traffic and converted. Many of these schemes had very limited terms and conditions, in other words it was a message of 'Drive us traffic, no questions asked and we'll pay you'.

A typical point of sale for an affiliate scheme. Big bundles of cash. Some even have private jets and nice cars! Selling the dream.



The sheer volume of niche porn created and the volume of affiliate networks created a fuel for those who just wanted to work on traffic and get money. Many of these people sought mailout promotions in the form of SPAM, others opted to created 100's of keyword domains to direct traffic with many template sites setup for search engine rankings. Others just went out to blindly deceive people using techniques such as 'e-whoring' and classifieds spam. 'E-whorers' would lurk in sex chats and forums, first getting their target onto a chat such as MSN before trying to sell them the service (such as live webcam chat) all the while sounding genuine and posing as someone they're not.  An age old tactic of marketers is to sell on insecurities. Make this insecurity as big as you can in the consumer's mind and then offer them the solution. Viagra, penis pills, weight loss, dating and insurance to name a few!

Search engines have been flooded with replica blogs, comment spam, forum spam and link farms over the years with almost a 'traffic is king' mantra driven by affiliate systems. However, content is the king and search engines have adapted rapidly to draw the distinction between what is trying to communicate with users and what is trying to shepherd them onto something else.

On a positive, the industry has responded and tightened it's terms of use for their affiliate schemes. Many of the bigger brands such as BangBros will simply not allow any email marketing and will work hard to provide you with the tools to help sell their product in a non-invasive and respectful way.

Many companies have been caught up in the greed rush and that feeling of lagging behind as many others use these practises causes a 'well everybody else does it' mentality.

The Tube Revolution

In around 2005, tube sites such as youporn sprung up to provide a youtube of porn. This caused an outcry from content producers and a lust from consumers. It was truly a revolution in online pornography and destined to be successful online following the huge success of streaming content demonstrated by youtube.

What did this now mean for content niche sites and paid subscriptions? Simply put, it meant people had a means of satisfaction they did not need their credit cards for, so profits in many cases dropped significantly.

Tubes allowed people to upload their own videos. Such is the nature of people, they would also upload stolen content from many sites thus negating the need for those sites. This is a strong argument from the content corner who strongly protest their livelihood is affected by the ease of piracy distribution the tubes provide.

However, there is one important trend that has emerged. The word 'amatuer' and the fact that now people in their own homes can produce porn for the viewing masses. This is new, this is something the tubes do that the pay sites don't and can't be denied. Whilst the wheels are in motion to protect content producers and for tubes to adopt more rigorous copy protection processes, it is clear that a hybrid of pay sites advertising their content in short clips and the budding amateur making a name for themselves will be the place for tube sites in the coming years. A churn will take place to help find a compromise between both content producer and media aggregators.

.XXX domain names

The .xxx domain extension (released this month, Dec 2011) has also created a lot of concern within the industry. It is very opportunistic to see the porn-web-world in this state and then heavily promote a solution in the form of .xxx. Very mixed reaction to the subject and some strong reaction from the Industry. Many companies opted to never support it or work with affiliates that support it. .xxx argues that it provides a place to act responsibly and the relatively high cost of the domains goes towards supporting a cleaner and more responsible adult web with virus checking and a human board of control. Others would say this is typical greed taking control of something they have no right to and the beginnings of ring-fencing the industry so governments and ISPs can form greater control. This would mean the consumer may have content heavily restricted and also a means for ISPs to sell packages which allow .xxx access at a greater price.

RampantSpider.com

RampantSpider was created to search porn across multiple tubes and to introduce some mainstream techniques. We have challenged ourselves to look at some inherently complex subjects all in the aid of user centricity, a term mainstream know moreso than adult. The argument about the content on the tube sites will rumble for sometime and we will update ourselves in accordance with their data. However, despite who owns what, there's still a user out there who's looking for their interests and facing difficulty with search filtering.

A large bulk of development and planning went into RampantSpider's filter system. This contains over 600 options which all have a thesaurus to help group multiple slang terms that mean the same thing. The beta phase will asses how this pans out.

So far, we are happy to report the filter is used almost as much as the search bar itself.

We also made a decision to abolish popup ads and flash banners to use as much space for the user experience as possible. We needed a useful tool, the more something is usable, the more it is used - seems simple right!?

Another challenge is tagging and organising content in ways only humans can. So much information in the video is only obtainable when you watch the video which is a very slow search technique so over the coming months we'll be looking at ways to help alleviate this issue. There will be a separate blog about this.

So, I'll finish with the summing up of the future of porn online. Whilst tube sites churn content and become more in-line with stringent copy theft laws, pay sites will continue to take new shapes to differentiate from tubes in the form of reality porn, 3D, interactive and live sex cams. They will also look at new business models and integrations with the tubes to facilitate the user. The amateur porn user base will grow and the biggest content producers will likely become the people in their own home. The impact of .xxx and 'ringfencing' is still yet to be determined but something many will be watching closely. As for the millions of adult blogs, link farms and 'circle jerk' sites, these will stick around but will die out of prominence as the search engines become wiser with social engagement and continue their evolution towards an ecosystem that truly rewards engagement.

Saturday 10 December 2011

Google of Porn? No, better!

Modern search engines include faceted filtering. This might be date, content type, country etc...any number of different options.

Searching porn on Google brings you back the whole soup. You can conduct image searches, video searches and traditional web searches.

Whilst this is all good, porn is a subject of great detail. Any porn videos can contain any number of assets and features that can be difficult to isolate and search on.

RampantSpider.com is a porn movie search engine with a very comprehensive filter system dedicated to the porn genre.

Now you can conduct detailed searches hands free!

Can't do that on Google!

Monday 7 November 2011

Launch of BETA RampantSpider.com

We are pleased to present the BETA launch of RampantSpider.com.

A new search engine and way to find adult movies on popular tube sites.

Our first blog will explore the features and ambitions of the site going forward.

Adult Search Engine vs Tube Search Organizer

We like to think we're the latter, the term 'adult search engine' is probably what you've all heard before. Type some words, get some results, see if they're relevant and move on. An 'organizer' on the other hand, presents a more useful search experience and understands that finding the vids you want and organizing them presents it's own set of challenges. Firstly lets explore the features of RampantSpider in more detail to understand this.

Multi-faceted Search Filtration

Sounds a bit tecky but something you'd be used to when using ecommerce sites. It simply means you can choose a 'combination of options' in order to find what you want. Now, for a site which controls the content - such as an online store, it can be done with great accuracy since the data (i.e. products) can be tagged with the appropriate words.

For porn videos, it's a completely different beast. Since many are uploaded by people around the world, you can imagine the tagging is inconsistant and use of 'slang' language differs wildly. Also a tag is just a word, it doesn't belong to a group like attributes do in ecommerce. Consider searching for a jumper within a store and then you want it in blue. This is the attribute 'blue' assigned to the group 'color'. The word 'blue' now has context, we understand it to mean a color.

So without going into too much detail, breaking down the structure of a porn video in order to identify the groups needed was the first challenge. Second challenge was to categorize all the various tags, titles, categories into these groups.

Now we have a system that allows you to do something like this:

"I want Asian girls, wearing suspenders, with pigtails giving a blowjob" or "I want milfs with blue eyes located in the bedroom". Possibilities are endless. Whatever tickles you!

Beta caveat - you will get some non-relevant results mixed in amongst the relevant ones and sometimes very few results with certain combinations. This is down to tagging data - some vids are tagged with words which are completely irrelevant (annoyingly) and some vids just don't have the info available - an example of this is eye color, we all have eye colors but unless the video is tagged with it, it can't be filtered on. Rest assure, we are working on something to help get more data into the vids - this is a challenge so please bear with us!.

Problem with keyword search is you get results all 'merged' together unless there is an exact match or you are clever with your word inclusion/exclusion but then you need to type your phrase out, check the results, refine, go again etc and there has to be a better way.. There is, and that's what multi-faceted search is, a combination of keyword search functionality and filtration on multiple elements. You don't even need to keyword search, just start with everything on the homepage and filter from there.

Give it a try, it's quite a fun feature and there's stuff in there you may never have heard of which is always interesting.

Saving Favorites in Folders

Sounds simple but you'll be suprised at how user functions such as favorites are left lacking. You want to save lots of vids, you need a way of organizing them how you want. RampantSpider.com will store all your fave vids in your own defined folders.

Saving Searches & Quick Search

Another simple but powerful feature is the search saving. Once you've invested time in finding that particular you've been longing for, save how you found it. Then, in future, you can just click a link to conduct the same search, checking for new vids that may have arrives.

The Quick Search feature simply allows you to pick 8 of your saved searches so they are available in a quick access menu in the header making repeat visits a breeze.

Mark as Viewed

One of the most interesting features is the ability to 'Mark as Viewed'. This simple one click on/off action allows you to record all the vids you have watched before.

Why is this useful? Well, you can now exclude them from search results if you wish so you don't have to trawl through stuff you've seen before.

So there's a summary of features we hope prove useful and we have plenty more where that came from. Your support/feedback/comments are most welcome as we really want to make it as useful as it can be. This includes the advertising we'll use to support the site. We've chosen not to take up all the space that can otherwise be used for user-features but opted for a text ad which is relevant and screened prior to adding


All that's left to say is enjoy the site and please feedback bugs,thoughts,ideas as much as you want. We'll listen.