94: percentage of U.S. students who equate research with using Google, or other search engines.75: percentage of students who use Wikipedia and online encyclopedias.87: the percentage of all US adults using the Internet who also use search engines.
2 billion: Or nearly 30 percent of all humans, use the Internet
A history of online research
1962: J.C.R. Licklider of MIT has "Galactic Network" concept, a globally interconnected set of computers where everyone could access data from any site.1989: Demonstration of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee.1990: Public release of the World Wide Web.1990: First search tool for the web (Archie) was created.1993: First web crawler (Wanderer) was created.1993: First graphical browser (Mosaic).1994: Netscape browser launched.1994: Development of first popular search engines (Alta Vista, Lycos, Excite and Yahoo)1995: Internet Explorer launched.1995: First public video-conference took place.1996: Instant messaging services launched.1997: Google released1997: First weblog (blog) is attributed to Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom Web site.1997: SixDegrees.com is launched. Often seen as the first social networking site.Paid placement ranking: Goto morphed into Overture and Yahoo. Ranking depended on how much you paid.1998 +: Link based ranking pioneered by Google• Blew away all search engines except Inktomi; meanwhile, Goto/Overture's annual revenues were nearly $1 billion.2000: 400 million people across the globe use the internet.2001: First commercial launch of 3G (Third Generation) mobile phones.2001: First Access Grid developed at the University of Manchester.2003: Myspace launched.2003: Yahoo acquires Overture (for paid placement) and Inktomi (search)2004: Mozilla Firefox web browser released (the 2nd most popular current browser after Internet Explorer).2004: Facebook launched.2006: Twitter launched.2007: iPhone launched.2008: Google Chrome browser launched.2010: iPad launched.2011: Number of internet users estimated as 2 billion world wide.
What is the percentage of people who go online, then use a search engine:
Millennials, age 18-33: 92 %Gen X (34-45): 87Younger Boomers (45-55): 86Older Boomers (56-64): 87Silent Generation (65-73): 82G.I. Generation (74 plus): 72All online adults (18 plus): 87
The battle of the Search Engines (as of 12/13)
Google: 66.7 percent of all searchesMicrosoft sites (Bing): 18.2 percentYahoo: 11.2Ask: 2.6AOL: 1.4
Number of searches (worldwide: 18.3 billion in Dec. 2013)Google: 12.3 billion of the 18.3 (or 66.7 % see above)Microsoft (Bing): 3.3 billionYahoo: 2 billionAsk: 452 millionAOL: 234 million
What are the top online research tools used by students
• Google or other online search engine: 94% of those surveyed• Wikipedia or other online encyclopedias:75 %• You Tube, or other social media sites: 52%• News sites of major news organizations (i.e. NY Times): 25%• Textbooks, electronic: 18%• Databases, such as EBSCO, JSTOR: 17%
Google Research tools
Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.com) : for search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
Google App Engine: Google funds projects that create tools, applications and curriculum that can be used by other educators in their own teaching environments.
Google Book Search: (www.books.google.com) Search the latest index of the world's books. Find millions of great books you can preview or read for free.
YouTube EDU: Resources for learning, from English lessons to real-life math.
Chrome's FlashCards extension: to learn languages faster, prep for exams
Google Earth: with thousands of aerial and satellite photos, dozens of layers of information: city names, country borders, airport locations, road maps.
Google Play: has millions of FREE books readily available
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