From WebProNews article:
"A new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project said 47 percent of Internet users search for a topic very close to them: themselves. --clip-- .... Neither gender does more vanity searching than the other. Men and women self search in equal numbers, with the number increasing with the person's success in life. The type of information people have online varies. Pew Internet said few of the respondents have their cellphone numbers, political affiliation, or videos of themselves online." More at http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/12/17/ego-surfing-occupies-nearly-half-the-web And from the PCWorld's version: "Another interesting tidbit from the Pew survey is 53 percent of Internet users have Googled someone elses name. Reasons include reconnecting with past friends (36 percent), searching about a coworker (19 percent) or a job applicant (11 percent), or even finding information about someone they are dating (9 percent)." http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006076.html Link to the study: http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/229/report_display.asp or http://cdn.sfgate.com/chronicle/acrobat/2007/12/13/pip_digital_fp_2007.pdf [PDF] How about you? :) Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
