Internet and Technology

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

24 million Americans have high-speed access at home and they use the Internet in dramatically different ways from dial-up users WASHINGTON (June 23) — Americans with high-speed Internet connections at home are strikingly different from dial-up Internet users in three ways: First, they use their broadband connections to create content that they post online and […]

Most Internet users who seek health information online find the advice they’re looking for and are cautious about how they use it. But only a quarter of them follow experts’ advice to carefully check the credibility of their sources. Medical librarians produce a guide for smart online health searches and great Web sites. WASHINGTON (May […]