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    Looking back, looking forward

    Where has the internet fallen short of expectations? Since so many of the experts we contacted were early adopters of the internet, we asked them to think back to their views a decade ago and assess where the use or impact of the internet has fallen short of expectations. Many experts are disappointed that spam […]

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    The Islamic Paradox: Religion and Democracy in the Middle East

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in May 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Reuel Marc Gerecht, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Middle East specialist for the CIA, argued that […]

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    Part 4. The searcher and his search engine

    Only some searchers rely on search engines. A recent  study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that while growing numbers of internet users conduct an increasing variety of activities online, from looking up phone numbers to buying tickets to getting the news, they are not integrating their internet use into their everyday […]

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    Part 4. What the general public believes

    Consumers have different views of copyright issues from musicians and artists. The Pew Internet & American Life Project surveyed the general population on some of these same issues in a poll of 2,013 American adults conducted between November 18 and December 14, 2003. Among other things, the survey showed that American consumers are less familiar […]

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    Part 5. Is users’ trust in search engines blind?

    How searchers feel about issues related to paid and unpaid search results. In the last few years, a few new ingredients have been introduced into the ways search engines select and present their search results to users. These have become a source of controversy within the search industry, despite going largely unnoticed by users. The […]

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