Comments on: Search becomes No. 2 Web activity

But surfers are still more addicted to e-mail, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds. News reading comes in third.

[JoeManFoo]

I just wonder

I wonder if the study really took into account all the folks like my mom, who think that typing the url into the search box of the google homepage is acutally typing the url into the addres bar...So they end up "searching" for the address that they already knew.

[JoeManFoo]

I just wonder

I wonder if the study really took into account all the folks like my mom, who think that typing the url into the search box of the google homepage is actually typing the url into the address bar...So they end up "searching" for the address that they already knew.

[sundoggy]

Search is probably #1 "web" activity

Since email is not really a web technology, but an internet
technology (or protocol, whatever), search is actually probably the
#1 web activity. Email came before the web BTW. I know that many
people check their email on the web, but I would surprised if the
number of web email users makes it the #1 web activity, though I
certainly believe that email is the #1 internet activity. I suspect the
majority of people don't know the difference between the internet
and the web.