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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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Use of the Internet at Major Life Moments
May 8, 2002Lee Rainie, Nathan Kommers
Information on the Web is important to significant numbers of Americans when they are making important choices related to education and job training, investments and big-ticket purchases, and health care for themselves or for loved ones. Online mater...
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Getting Serious Online: As Americans Gain Experience, They Pursue More Serious Activities
Mar 3, 2002Lee Rainie, John Horrigan
As Americans gain experience online, they use the Internet more for their jobs, to make more online purchases and carry out other financial transactions, and to write emails with more significant and intimate content.
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Americans had a brisk holiday of online action
By Lois M. Collins, Salt Lake City Deseret News
Jan 2, 2002
Despite recent terrorism, Americans didn't avoid malls. And the anthrax that apparently was sent by U.S. mail didn't seem to discourage them from sending holiday greeting cards. But though most people said they didn't change their shopping habits, a ...
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Holidays Online 2001
Jan 1, 2002Lee Rainie
Online Holiday shopping grew this season from the previous, though Internet users also increasingly use the Internet during the holiday season to search for information on travel, holiday crafts, recipes and traditions.
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More People Went Online to Talk and Send Greetings Than Shop
John Schwartz , The New York Times
Jan 8, 2001
In a telephone survey conducted during the Christmas shopping season, researchers from the Pew Internet and American Life Project asked 3,493 American adults about their holiday online time. They found that noncommercial activities — getting informat...
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Study: Net use is more social than commercial
By Dolores Kong, Globe Staff, The Boston Globe
Jan 1, 2001
In an intriguing look at Internet use during the holidays, a nationwide survey released yesterday finds that Hispanics were more likely to send e-greeting cards, blacks to research religious and holiday traditions, and women to buy gifts online.
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The Holidays Online 2000
Dec 31, 2000John Horrigan
Americans take advantage of the Internet while executing their holiday plans—from online shopping, and sending of e-greetings, to travel, party and event planning.
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