Data Memo on Search Engines
The use of search engines is a top online activity and Americans increasingly feel they get the information they want when they perform search queries
Internet and Technology
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The Internet has an impact on Americans’ everyday lives, but traditional offline habits still dominate
The vast majority of American Internet users say the Internet plays a role in their daily routines and that the rhythm of their everyday lives would be affected if they could no longer go online. Yet, despite its great popularity and allure, the Internet still plays second fiddle to old-fashioned habits. Some of the key […]
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The Internet and Daily Life
The vast majority of online Americans say the Internet plays a role in their daily routines and that the rhythm of their everyday lives would be affected if they could no longer go online. Yet, despite its great popularity and allure, the Internet st…
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The tasks of everyday life and the internet
While nearly all Internet users conducted some of their day-to-day activities online in 2004, most still defaulted to the traditional offline ways of communicating, transacting affairs, getting information and entertaining themselves.
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30 million Americans have seen war-related images online that mainstream news organizations deemed too graphic or disturbing to display
Washington, D.C. (For release at 5 p.m. July 8)—New research by the Pew Internet Project shows that during some of the most turbulent weeks of the Iraq war nearly one quarter of Internet users (24%) went online to view some of most graphic war images that were deemed too gruesome or horrific for newspapers and […]