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Most Internet users have searched for answers to specific questions. 83% of users have done a search online to answer a specific question, according to our latest survey on the subject in September 2002. The number of those who have used the Internet to answer questions grew 24% from 79 million to 98 million between […]

Major changes in technologies of access, the maturation of Internet users, and the development of new applications and content are three likely factors that have contributed to the growth of online pursuits. Since the Pew Internet & American Life Project began its research in 2000, the applications available on the Internet have changed dramatically, the […]

Pew Internet Project Reports, 2000-2003 Online Activities & Pursuits Spam: How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet (Author: Deborah Fallows.  Release date: October 22, 2003) Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2003/Spam-How-it-is-hurting-email-and-degrading-life-on-the-Internet.aspx Music Downloading, File-sharing and Copyright (Authors: Mary Madden and Amanda Lenhart. Release date: July 31, 2003) Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2003/Music-Downloading-Filesharing-and-Copyright.aspx Let the Games Begin: Gaming technology […]

Use of the Internet to research a service or product has increased significantly. 83% of Internet users have researched a product online as of December 2002. That represents growth of 52% from 64 million who had done product research online as of March 2000, to 97 million who said they had done such research as […]

Is Spam Killing the Killer App? Email was the original “killer app” of the Internet, and it remains the most popular online activity. Some 93% of adult American Internet users, about 117 million people, use email. On any given day online, nearly twice as many Internet users will log on to email as will engage […]

Spam exists because it is profitable, but emailers have defenses they can use. There are many profiteers in the lucrative spam industry: Email address list builders scavenge and sell lists of email addresses. Software makers and marketers build and sell cheap programs that facilitate numerous illegal spam activities: look for vulnerable, hackable email servers, disguise […]

Why some Internet users have not searched for health information If 80% of current Internet users have looked for health information online, what does the future hold? Will the other 20% of current Internet users try a health search some day? Will the 40% of Americans who do not have Internet access some day go […]