All
Publications
The Growth in Online House Hunting: 40 million wired Americans have used the Internet to search for houses or apartments WASHINGTON (August 5, 2002) — For Americans on the move, the Internet is becoming an increasingly important resource for researching housing options. Fully 40 million Americans, one third of all Internet users, have looked online […]
Introduction In a summer dominated by business scandals and a sagging stock market, the public is in an increasingly cranky mood. President Bush’s approval ratings have slipped, support for increased regulation of business is up, and Americans are less confident that the government is giving them the straight story about terrorism. At the same time […]
A Pew Research Center Note
WASHINGTON (July 17, 2002) — Fifty-two million Americans have looked online for information about jobs, and more than 4 million do so on a typical day. Overall, these figures represent a more than 60% jump in the number of online job hunters from March 2000 when we first asked about the subject. We found then […]
A Pew Research Center Note
by Andrew Kohut for The New York Times
WASHINGTON (July 3, 2002) – Search engines have become an indispensable utility for Internet users. More than eight in ten American Internet users have gone to search engines to find information on the Web. More than one in four U.S. Internet users – about 33 million adults – present queries on search engines on a […]