Comments on: Search Engine Usage Keeps Growing http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/11/search_engine_usage_keeps_growing.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=search_engine_usage_keeps_growing Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Alexander http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/11/search_engine_usage_keeps_growing.php#comment-19190 Alexander Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:03:51 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/11/search_engine_usage_keeps_growing.php#comment-19190 <p>Search is the most popular activity, but I use visual interface for google.com - Quintura search</p> <p><a href="http://www.quintura.com/quinturasearch/" rel="nofollow">http://www.quintura.com/quinturasearch/</a></p> Search is the most popular activity, but I use visual interface for google.com – Quintura search

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]]> By: Kurt von Finck http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/11/search_engine_usage_keeps_growing.php#comment-19189 Kurt von Finck Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:23:28 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/11/search_engine_usage_keeps_growing.php#comment-19189 <p><i>In fact, the only Web activity more popular than searching was using e-mail; about 52 percent of U.S. Web users told Pew researchers they had sent or received e-mail on the day before being surveyed this fall.</i></p> <p>This seems vague. Do they mean webmail, or e-mail in general?</p> <p>"The web" is not synonymous with "the Internet" despite the linguistic usage of the masses. I use e-mail every day, but it has nothing to do with my web browser or surfing habits.</p> <p>If this report is meant to highlight what people do with their web browsers then the data seems, from my chair, to be at best poorly explained, and worst, somewhat skewed. If the report is meant to reflect what users' TCP/UDP packets are doing for them in general, the findings make more sense.</p> <p>After skimming <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_SearchData_1105.pdf" rel="nofollow">the full report</a> (PDF) it seems the latter is the case (they include instant messaging as an activity).</p> <p>I suspect, and will posit, that if the non-webmail users were to be filtered from these numbers we'd see that search is as common an activity in most users' browsers as is e-mail. At the very least, the gap would narrow considerably. Which is a very interesting statistic, indeed.</p> In fact, the only Web activity more popular than searching was using e-mail; about 52 percent of U.S. Web users told Pew researchers they had sent or received e-mail on the day before being surveyed this fall.

This seems vague. Do they mean webmail, or e-mail in general?

“The web” is not synonymous with “the Internet” despite the linguistic usage of the masses. I use e-mail every day, but it has nothing to do with my web browser or surfing habits.

If this report is meant to highlight what people do with their web browsers then the data seems, from my chair, to be at best poorly explained, and worst, somewhat skewed. If the report is meant to reflect what users’ TCP/UDP packets are doing for them in general, the findings make more sense.

After skimming the full report (PDF) it seems the latter is the case (they include instant messaging as an activity).

I suspect, and will posit, that if the non-webmail users were to be filtered from these numbers we’d see that search is as common an activity in most users’ browsers as is e-mail. At the very least, the gap would narrow considerably. Which is a very interesting statistic, indeed.

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