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 […]
WASHINGTON, DC–Information on the Web is important to significant numbers of Americans when they are making important choices related to education and job training, investments and big-ticket purchases, and health care for themselves or for loved ones. Online material is also important to a relatively large number of people who are looking for new jobs […]
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 […]
68 million Americans have gained new access to government services and information via the Web and email WASHINGTON – Sixty-eight million Americans have used the Web sites of government agencies, a figure up from 40 million such users two years ago. They exploit their new access to government in wide-ranging ways, finding information to further […]
Americans increasingly use the Internet to conduct research for their jobs, to make transactions, and share worries and seek advice through emails WASHINGTON, D.C.-As Americans gain experience online, they use the Internet more for their jobs, to make more online purchases and carry out other financial transactions, and to write emails with more significant and […]
28 million American Internet users have gotten religious and spiritual material online 3 million get such material every day WASHINGTON D.C. – The number of Americans going online to find religious information is growing and those who seek spiritual material are generally looking for things to complement already devout lives by educating themselves on their […]
75% of English-speaking Asian-American adults are online WASHINGTON, DC Asian-Americans who speak English are more experienced and active Internet users than whites, African-Americans, or Hispanics. Surveys of 13,946 Internet users by the Pew Internet & American Life Project show that about three-quarters of Asian-American adults have gone online, a significantly greater rate than the 58% […]
12% of Internet users have lost a favorite Web site 17% have been asked to pay for something that used to be free online Most online Americans adjust easily Major findings The dot-com problems and their impact on the Web Some Americans” Internet experiences are beginning to be affected by the dot-com meltdown, but the […]
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