I am not an AOL user, but when I did some volunteer reference work at my
public library, I noticed that a lot of searchers who used AOL at home did
this very thing when searching on the internet at the library. I think that
because AOL offers this kind of keyword functionality, AOL users not
familiar with searching the internet directly were confused when confronted
with the "raw" internet. Perhaps the statistic in question is attributable
to this circumstance.
Donna F. Cavallini
Manager of Competitive Knowledge
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
dcavallini@kilpatrickstockton.com
dcavallini@interfold.com
-----Original Message-----
From: T. R. Halvorson [mailto:pastel@btigate.com]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:22 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Alexa: How People Search the Web
An example excerpted from Alexa study published February 14, 2001.
"Rather than entering a uniform resource locator ("URL") into the address
field of their Web browsers, millions of Internet users enter the name of
the site they want into the search box of their homepage or other search
engine."
http://www.alexaresearch.com/clientdir/news/report.php?id=23
T. R. Halvorson
LexNotes
Synoptic Text Information Services, Inc.
mailto:trh@lexnotes.com
http://www.lexnotes.com
http://www.lexnotes.com/tr.shtml
Author of:
Law of the Super Searchers: The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers
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