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Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy
evil_breeds writes "A study by S.G. Cowen & Co. says that Google users tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than users of the other search engines, including Yahoo!, AOL, and Microsoft's search, according to an article on Infoworld."
I know plenty of hippies that use Google.
Everyone use Google and wealth and wisdom will ensue!
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
I think we're one step closer to Miscrosoft paying us to use their search engine...
If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
and their 'funded' windows v linux TCO studies..
I'm curious who paid SG Cowen for this one?
they don't generate this stuff for fun, they do it for income-- what's the source of the income that enables them to produce such a report?
anyone? know anything about the corp? I find little on the site of the company to fill in the blank...
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Will all you rich Google users please send this Broke College Student some money?
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Yes. And all those people are too poor to be able to afford an internet connection.
-- Cheers!
... more attractive to the opposite sex just yet, though I'm sure that if Google could get you laid, you'd think I'd've heard about it by now...
Dog is my co-pilot.
http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/1403 581
There is a citation for you.
Today, Google seems to be going in the other direction. Offering more services, integrating more advertising.
Just the past 6 months, I have noticed a new form of advertising by Google. In the past, there would be the advertising on the right of the page, and the advertising on top in the blue or green box. But now they sneak in 3 or 4 searches on the first page mixed in with the regular searches as advertising. Google is tempted to make money, and it will burn thier support.
Who knows, maybe someone else will start a search engine. Google came around at a time when Yahoo and Excite dominated, but Google made a product easier to use. I remember my first time using Google... I was at Yahoo to search for something when someone said "Why don't you try google, check it out". I was hooked.
The past few months I have been using Yahoo more for a few reasons. Maybe reason #1 is I got tired of Google having so many websites listed so high that was spam.
The other thing which turned me off to Google was I started a website and wanted to add it to the listings. Google would not add my listings for six months. And mine is NOT spam. Why is spam listed so high, but legitimate websites are not?
AOL, MSN and Yahoo (via relationship with SBC) are all dialup providers. It's not surprising their portals are visited more often by the, erm, underprivileged.
Oh, you mean that *nix distro with an AWESOME GUI? Yeah I use it. I also use google the most often because it looks better in Lynx.
On a more serious note: Some people don't use google? Even the semi-computer illerteate people I know use google and nothing else. It's like second nature to most everyone, I thought.
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - S. G. Colette
This seems almost like some contrived effort to increase Google's ad revenue. Now, when Google negotiates an advertising agreement, they can cite this. Poor, dumb people (who have computers) don't use Google? Virtually everyone uses Google. I wouldn't claim to know, but I'd think the Google demographic is that of the general population.
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.
um-- you have ad/trojan/spyware.. I had this exact same thing..
in made my google results always have commercial sites turn up in/mixed in with the results.
looked really good- but none of the adslime had cached version links available
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
... but I'm definitely putting "Google user" down on my next loan application.
How can a post be modded "overrated" or "underrated" when it hasn't been rated yet?
They need to have google.slashdot.org and then people could block this stuff. Better yet, pointless-google-stories.slashdot.org as well as google.slashdot.org so we could seperate out the true trash from the slightly overrated trash that the editors have been pushing lately.
Perhaps it was a bit bold to say regular expressions, its more permutations since it supports words and not letters.
But you can do things like "word * word"
You can also do something like this
"(I|He|She) (can|may|will) (search|find|locate)"
I agree with you that they would never (not atm) allow the public to have access to something that is turing-complete.
Yes, you can conclude that. The phrase "more likely" does not imply causation, merely correlation. If the data you gather shows that two factors are correlated then, without even trying to construct a causation model for this correlation, you can use one as a predictor of the other. The article is merely saying that the longer a randomly-selected user has been using the internet the likelier it is they use Google, and that the fraction of Google users with incomes over $60,000 is higher than the fraction of non-Google users with incomes over $60,000.
No, you don't. There is no statistical requirement that various groups you are trying to compare be of similar size in order to make comparisons. There is only a requirement that all your groups be sufficiently large to have a high likelihood of being representative of the population from which they are being drawn. WIth 1000 users and 9% MSN that's only 90 users, which is probably not enough to draw broad conclusions about MSN's user base, but the study as a whole seems to be mostly comparing the 52% Google users to the 48% non-Google users. That certainly seems like a reasonable number of samples to support the conclusion that Google use, technical experience, and income are all positively correlated.
That's a really great statement, and I don't think it can be emphasized enough. I'm a techie and now a lawyer, but once upon a time I spent a summer working in maintenance. There are so many things that people who slashdotites look down on can do it boggles the mind... and it's not just advanced stuff, it's knowing how to wire something properly. Computers won't give you that. Sure, most of the guys didn't go to college. But they're certainly not stupid. They're sending their kids to college because they want opportunities for them. They watch jeopardy and all that good stuff. You read /. long enough and you get the idea that everyone else here thinks that "joe sixpack" really is a permanently inebriated, dirt-eating idiot. That's really unfortunate, and it doesn't reflect well on us as techies.