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Where people get information about restaurants and other local businesses
Dec 14, 2011Lee Rainie, Kristen Purcell, Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel
The internet is the source that people most rely on for material about the local business scene and search engines are particularly valued. Newspapers and word of mouth also rank high as sources.
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Internet users buy and sell things online, hunt for financial information, and share their stories about their shopping experiences.

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2007

Data Set
September 2007 - Consumer Choice
Sep 5, 2007
This data set contains questions about how people research, buy and evaluate products they purchase online. It includes modules on cell phones, real estate and music and was used in the reports "Online Shopping" and "The Internet and Consumer Choice"...
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Commentary
China's eBay-MySpace
Jun 18, 2007Deborah Fallows
In China, there is a virtual meeting place for people who have social connections to buy or sell.
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2006

Report
Internet Users In Search of a Home
Dec 13, 2006Deborah Fallows
Nearly two in five adult internet users in the U.S. (39%) have gone online to look for information about a place to live, up from 34% in 2004 and 27% in 2000.
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More in: Decision Making, Shopping, Search
Presentation
Virtual tours
Nov 28, 2006Mary Madden, Xingpu Yuan
More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours -- nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.
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Virtual Tours
Nov 27, 2006Xingpu Yuan, Mary Madden
More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours -- nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.
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Presentation
The New Media Ecology: How the Internet is Changing Consumer Behavior and Expectations
May 9, 2006Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie describes the changes introduced into the consumer world by the internet, the cell phone, and other technology devices. And he covers some of the major implications of those changes for organizations and businesses that deal with consumers...
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Report
Surfing for Fun
Feb 15, 2006Deborah Fallows
About 40 million Americans were browsing the web just for fun or to pass the time on a typical day in December 2005.
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2005

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About 25 million people have used the internet to sell something
Nov 27, 2005Amanda Lenhart
One in six internet users has used the internet to sell things and traffic to online classified sites has risen 80% in the past year.
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Media Mention
Tech-savvy teen girls
Older girls are `power users' among wired youngsters, a study finds
Chris Cobbs, Orlando Sentinel
Jul 28, 2005
"While working a part-time job at an engineering firm, Edgewater High School senior Michelle Tyrlik scrimped and saved for seven months so she could fulfill a longtime dream: to buy her own laptop.

"My parents didn't help me buy it, and it's the first...
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2004

Commentary
New data on internet use and demographics
Dec 22, 2004Lee Rainie
Our latest survey finds that more than half of home-internet users have broadband connections, and that there are 80 million e-shoppers, and that 14 million have contributed to charity online.
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