print email comment close Online Activities & Pursuits: Search Engine Users URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/Search-Engine-Users.aspx Description: This report finds that Internet users like and use search engines, but "are generally unsophisticated about why and how they use search engines. They are also strikingly unaware of how search engines operate and how they present their results." From Pew Internet & American Life, an initiative funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Publisher: Pew Internet & American Life Project Library of Congress Subject Headings: Information literacy Information retrieval Internet users Web search engines LII Database Information: Record 13358 created by Karen Schneider on 01/31/2005 Last modification on 10/06/2009 Published: 01/31/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13358