Hello Mimig,
USA Today reported that 40 percent of Internet searches are for
medical information.
AlternativeDr.com
http://209.35.206.78/news.html
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A Harris Interactive poll conducted for Microsoft examined search engine usage.
?The most popular topics overall were travel, with 61 percent of users
saying they searched on the subject, followed by health (60 percent),
entertainment (58 percent), current events or news (56 percent) and
weather (56 percent).?
ClickZ News
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3391251
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?Seventy-three million Americans ? 62 percent of those with Internet
access ? have used the Web to get health or medical information,
according to the Pew Internet and the American Life Project. Some 81
percent of consumers who seek health information online use search
engines (e.g., Google, AOL and Yahoo), according to Pew.?
RWJF
http://www.rwjf.org/portfolios/resources/grantsreport.jsp?filename=046902.htm&iaid=142
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Bobbie7 |
Clarification of Answer by
bobbie7-ga
on
24 Aug 2005 21:01 PDT
PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT
Internet Health Resources
"Although very large numbers of Internet users conduct health
searches, most do so infrequently. Eight out of ten of those who have
conducted health searches say they do so every few months or less
frequently than that. Indeed, on a typical day, just 6% of Internet
users look for health or medical information online (by contrast, 49%
use email, 19% research a product or service, and 5% buy a product
online). More than half of those who recently conducted searches did
so on behalf of someone else ? a spouse, child, friend, or other loved
one ? not for themselves."
Download the full text of this report here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Health_Report_July_2003.pdf
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