Amazon is now bigger than Sex

Originally published by Ruslan Kogan on LinkedIn: Amazon is now bigger than Sex

Looks like "Maslow's hierarchy of needs" is overdue for an update. June 2015 was the month when shopping on Amazon became more popular than searching for porn.

Here are the Google Trends search stats:

Source: Google Trends

Zooming in, we see that while Sunday, 28th June 2015 may have seemed like any old Sunday, it wasn't! It was when "Amazon" overtook "Sex" and the winner has never been in dispute since.

The Amazon share price (NASDAQ:AMZN) then skyrocketed by 54.28% that year. Coincidence? I think not! :p

Source: Google Finance