More Americans are Googling themselves and many are checking out their friends, coworkers and romantic interests, too.
In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U. S. adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves Google or other search engines.
That is the 22 percent of users who did in 2002,but Pew senior research specialist Mary Madden was the growth wasn't higher.
“Yes it's doubled, but it's still the case there's a big chunk of Internet users who have done this simple act of plugging their name with ,” she said. Americans under 50 and with more education and income were to self-Google—in some cases because their jobs demand a certain online persona (人物信息) ,Pew found that53 percent of adult Internet users admit information about someone else, celebrities excluded.
Often, it's to find someone they've touch with. But looking up information about friends, relatives, colleagues and neighbors also was common. men and women equally searched for online information about themselves, women were slightly more likely to look up information about someone they are .
,the search is purely (纯粹的)done to find someone's contact information. But a third of those who have conducted searches on others have looked for ,such as bankruptcies and divorce proceedings. A similar number for someone else's photo. Few Internet users say they Google themselves —about three-quarters of self-searchers say they have done so only once or twice. And most who have done so consider they find accurate.
Pew also found that teens were more likely than adults who can see their profiles at an online hangout Facebook or News Corp. 's My Space.
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