90 Percent Of Us Net Users Don’t Know From Crtl-f

Dan Russell, one of Google's anthropologists, conducted a largeish survey of user behavior and discovered that 90 percent of American Internet users don't know that crtl-F will let them search documents including Web pages. I recently discovered that a smart and technologically literate friend had never heard of alt-tab for application switching; alt-tab being my single most used key combo!

It strikes me that we could probable come up with a list of ten (or even three) things you could teach to the people around you the next time you sit down to help them with a technology problem, "three things every technology user should know."

One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.

"90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands," Russell said. "I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for. At the end I'll say to them, 'Let me show one little trick here,' and very often people will say, 'I can't believe I've been wasting my life!'"

Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (via /.)

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90 percent of US net users don’t know from crtl-F

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HTC Fourth-Quarter Net Income NT$14.6 Billion

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- HTC Corp. posted fourth-quarter net income of NT$14.6 billion, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company said in a statement today. The average of 19 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg was for net income of NT$13.4 billion.

HTC Fourth-Quarter Net Income NT$14.6 Billion

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How the FCC failed the nation on Net Neutrality

Writing in Salon, Dan Gillmor takes a crack at explaining what a cowardly let-down the FCC's cop-out Net Neutrality rules are:

But when it came to rules that might boost network neutrality -- the notion that end users (you and me) should decide what content and services we want without interference from the ISPs -- the FCC's order paid lip service to the concept while enshrining its eventual demise. In theory, land-line carriers (traditional phone and cable companies, for the most part) won't be allowed to play favorites. In practice, the new rules invite them to concoct new kinds of services that do precisely that.

But even that fuzzy concept won't apply to mobile carriers, which means that discrimination will be explicitly permitted by companies like AT&T; and Verizon for customers of the iPhone and iPad, among other devices that are increasingly the most important entry point to the Internet.

The rules are also an open invitation to ISPs to spy on their customers. Genachowski's repeated references to users' right to use "legal" content were code words for the entertainment industry's push to have ISPs become their enforcement arms in the copyright wars. Hollywood wants your ISP to watch everything people do, and then block users who are alleged to be infringing.

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How the FCC failed the nation on Net Neutrality

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WTF: FCC cites Android as reason we don't need wireless Net Neutrality

Guess what turned up in the reasons given by the the FCC for not requiring net neutrality for wireless: because Android is open-source! This indicates "meaningful recent moves toward openness." Though not the only reason given in the FCC's press release, conflating the appliance with the pipe does sound like a shibboleth regarding the Commission's willingness to understand the issues. [via Engadget]

WTF: FCC cites Android as reason we don't need wireless Net Neutrality

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F.C.C. Is Set to Regulate Net Traffic

The F.C.C. will vote Tuesday on rules that create two classes of Internet access, one from fixed-line providers and the other wireless.

F.C.C. Is Set to Regulate Net Traffic

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F.C.C. Is Set to Regulate Net Access

The F.C.C. will vote Tuesday on rules that create two classes of Internet access, one from fixed-line providers and the other wireless.

F.C.C. Is Set to Regulate Net Access

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Media Decoder: Magazines Take a Shot at the Net

They have spent plenty trying to get on the Internet, but an ad argues that the old print copy is the superior experience.

Media Decoder: Magazines Take a Shot at the Net

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