Obiter is grateful to the Gazette’s digital whizzkids for some startling intel about the lubricious types who read our website. Don’t tell the Law Society, please, but new data on how people find lawgazette.co.uk produced a few, ahem, stimulating findings. The top three search queries – in order – were ‘sex videos’, sexy videos’ and ‘xxx videos’. Mmm. The ‘rule of law’ and ‘Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal’? Nowhere to be found.

Don’t worry, you’re not missing out. This algorithmic anomaly arose from the recent story we ran about a sex offender accidentally leaked police videos by a law firm.

Still, it got the editor thinking. Is there a lesson here on how to boost traffic still further? Don’t miss next week’s best-buy feature on tractors. John Deere or Massey Ferguson? It’s a choice best made in private.

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