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reportMar 21, 2005

College Searching Online

The majority of teens and nearly half of online adults use the internet to search for colleges or schools.
reportMar 15, 2005

Creative Commons Search Engine

Creative Commons recently launched an updated beta version of its search engine
reportMar 4, 2005

Search Queries About Social Security

A recent PIP report found that on any given day 38 million Americans consult a search engine. So it stands to reason that, as the national debate about Social Security continues, internet users may turn to search engines for links to sites that m…
reportFeb 23, 2005

Men, Women, and Money

Our November 2004 telephone survey brought some interesting data about women, men, and financial activities online.
presentationFeb 9, 2005

What people do online

An overview of our findings about who’s online and what they do on the Web.
reportJan 23, 2005

Search Engine Users

Internet users are very happy with their experiences searching the internet, but many are naive about how they search and the results they find.
reportJan 18, 2005

Weather Watchers

Chances are, if you’re reading this post, you’ve used the internet to track the weather at one time or another in your online life.
reportOct 10, 2004

Prescription Drugs Online

One in four Americans has used the internet to look for information about prescription drugs. Other topics covered: prescription drugs purchases online; drug-related spam.
presentationSep 27, 2004

Today’s E-Patients: Hunters and Gatherers of Health Information Online

This speech describes the different ways Internet users find health information online, whether they count on crude tools like search engines or become sophisticated “farmers” of health information, using trusted bookmarks and sharing what they fi…
reportSep 9, 2004

Clinical Trials? Old News to E-Patients

Medical journal editors are grabbing headlines this week for demanding a registry of clinical trials, but in fact, they are just catching up to savvy e-patients who have been asking for the same thing for years.

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