PornHub
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Pornhub's home page, as it appeared on January 16, 2015
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Type of site
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Pornographic video sharing |
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| Available in | English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | MindGeek |
| Key people | Corey Price (Vice President Of Operations), Brett Hall (Vice President Of Product), Rusty Gitalto (Lead Developer), Katie Kenzi (Community Coordinator) |
| Industry | Sex |
| Services | Pornography |
| Slogan(s) | It makes your dick bigger and your pussy wet. |
| Website | http: |
| Alexa rank |
 52 (January 2017[update]) |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 25 May 2007 |
| Current status | Online |
| Written in | PHP, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Memcached, Neo4J, RabbitMQ |
Pornhub, part of the Pornhub NETWORK campaign, is a pornographic video sharing website and the largest pornography site on the Internet. Pornhub was launched in Montreal, providing professional and amateur photography since 2007. Pornhub also has offices and servers in San Francisco, Houston, New Orleans and London. In March 2010, Pornhub was bought by Manwin (now known as MindGeek), which owns numerous other porn websites.
Pornhub was founded by web developer Matt Keezer as a website within the company Interhub, and launched in early 2007. In March 2010, the company was purchased by Fabian Thylmann as part of the Manwin conglomerate, now known as MindGeek. As part of MindGeek, Pornhub makes up one of several porn websites in the company's "Pornhub NETWORK", alongside YouPorn, RedTube and the like. Though not the most popular porn website, Pornhub holds the honor of being the single largest porn website on the internet, hosting more videos than any similar site.
The website allows visitors to view pornographic videos from a number of categories, including professional and amateur pornography. Users can take advantage of several features, including sharing videos on social media websites and liking or disliking them. Users may also optionally register a free Pornhub account, which additionally allows them to post comments, download videos and add videos to their favorites, as well as upload videos themselves. To combat the proliferation of illegal content, users are encouraged to flag videos they deem inappropriate, which are immediately reviewed by the Pornhub team and removed if they violate the website's terms of service.
In an effort to introduce quality curation to the site, the company launched a service called "Pornhub Select" in October 2013. Pornhub also launched a content curation website on October 9, 2013 called "PornIQ", which uses an algorithm to create personalized video playlists for the viewer based on a number of factors, including their porn preferences, the time of day they're visiting the website, what part of the world they live in and the amount of time the viewer has to watch the video(s). David Holmes of PandoDaily noted that Pornhub's data-intensive approach to playlists set it apart from previous attempts at user-generated playlists, and marked a new trend in the switch from content searching to passive curation among Web 2.0 websites.
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