GVU's 8th WWW User Survey
is very interesting reading, its available at
amic.com
Excerpt
Navigation Services
For this question, respondents could choose more than one answer. Yahoo
is frequently visited by 84% of our respondents. However, since the
survey is advertised on the Yahoo site (among others), this number may
be artificially high. On the other hand, other sources have established
Yahoo as one of the most visited sites on the web so it is not
surprising that a high percentage have visited it in the past six
months. Next most popular are the major search engines: AltaVista (67%),
Excite (66%), Infoseek (60%) and Lycos (59%). European respondents favor
AltaVista over the other search engines more strongly than their US
counterparts. Older users are more likely to use specialized
email/address search services such as 411, Bigfoot, and WhoWhere than
younger users. All three levels of experience report using Yahoo more
than any other navigation service, but novices are most likely to use
Yahoo and Excite, intermediates use Infoseek, Lycos and AltaVista, while
experts mainly use AltaVista. |
