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Article Source: Search Engine RoundtableMen tend to see it as an office, a library, or a playground--screw the community, this is about function not family.
Men tend to be more intense Internet users than women, being more likely to go online daily (61% of men and 57% of women) and more likely to go online several times a day (44% of men and 39% of women).
Let the countdown begin to someone stating that they use Google so therefore this study is invalid.
P.S. Women smell better than us too. So they can use whatever search engine they like.
#1 - Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:27 PM EDTLOL If by SOMEONE you mean SOME WOMAN, let me be the first. I love the new Google homepage, with all its widgets and gadgets and the new themes. All of my secondary and tertiary emails are forwarded to my gmail account and I also use the Google interface to access Usenet. (I'm the only Google Groups user I have seen who actually has their profile filled out, go figure.)
However, a case has been made in the past not to allow me to used by other women to "prove" studies about men and women are wrong. For instance, between home and work, I spend 90% of my day connected and have notifications that tell me everytime I get an email anywhere in addition to having four IM accounts connected at any given time. :D
I so can't wait until they just plug it straight into my brain.
I have a google email. I have a yahoo email. I use Google for search. Otherwise I don't use anything either of them make, to my knowledge. So I don't know where I am landing in the gender wars.
Anyway, a forum like this is not going to get a broad section of society any more than it is an accurate reflection of politics, religion or computer brand. There is a disproportionate percentage of secular leftwing Mac users so I am not going to be surprised it has a preponderance of Googling women.
Or maybe 70% of the Newsvine women are mannish?
I have a google email. I have a yahoo email. I use Google for search. Otherwise I don't use anything either of them make, to my knowledge.
Hmm, three google emails and two yahoos. I use Google to search as well, although I was an early adopter of Dogpile but lost interest when they didn't make a toolbar available for Opera.
So I don't know where I am landing in the gender wars.
Usually in hot water, in the time I've known you. :D
There is a disproportionate percentage of secular leftwing Mac users so I am not going to be surprised it has a preponderance of Googling women.
LOL Every once in a while my son just randomly says something like "I'll google your yahoo if youtube myspace." He's a detractor of all things related to social networking. :D
Or maybe 70% of the Newsvine women are mannish?
From the Isle of Man?
Gwenny, when did you get so funny?? If only you'd learn to uptick comments you could be a chick version of me.
What can you do with all of those email addresses? I have my corporate ones, and this one. Anything more is just showing off.
Cash- did you leave out the "Transgenders are from MSN Search" on purpose? Or do you have an address there too? lol
It's bad manners to edit titles after publication - otherwise I would add that in. It's perfect!
Gwenny, when did you get so funny?? If only you'd learn to uptick comments you could be a chick version of me.
::blush:: I'm on it. I assume you meant to tick my own . . ooo, that sounds perverted. :D
What can you do with all of those email addresses? I have my corporate ones, and this one. Anything more is just showing off.
I just accumulate them for whatever reason. Some women buy shoes, I go out and sign up for communities and mailinglists.
screw the community, this is about function not family.
Hm. Is using Newsvine an insult to manliness then?
Of course, Newsvine is full of touchy-feely liberal types anyway, isn't it? So I guess it must be.
#2 - Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:41 PM EDTInterestingly enough, I discovered another post that showed that female Internet users outnumber males. This is is even more interesting considering that Google is the dominant search engine. I'd love to know what kind of sampling was taken for the study, since I question the accuracy of the data with the information provided.
Yeah, I'd like to see that as well. I've gotten to a point where I don't trust the "men do this, women do this" studies at all, not because I personally use Google, but because most of those studies just have crappy researching methods and little empirical evidence. You can only be told that you can't read maps so many times before you become a cynic.
#3 - Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:21 PM EDTAs much as I try to get in touch with my feminine search side, I'm a google boy, in a google world...
I use both, Only to encourage competition. Yahoo has better content as in yahoo sports, yahoo drive, etc...
Google has better tools, as in Google Maps, Google Desktop (so I've heard, I'm secular mac user and spotlight works for me), Google Translate, Gmail.
I see the Internet as a communication tool and library. i.e. newsvine is useful sounding board among other things. Does this make me a male ? no, my second brain does.
#4 - Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:54 PM EDTSpif, I agree with SM that the method of the study is suspect - there's no one more alpha male than me and I dig NV - though I don't use Yahoo, it is true.
Voice, you have two brains? Which one writes on Newsvine, the Steve Martin one or the Kathleen Turner one?
actually it was more of a reference to the concept that a man thinks with his head and/or his penis.
who's Kathleen Turner?
Kathleen Turner (actress), penis (vacillating brain)
I love all things Google, I dislike all things yahoo. I hope that doesn't mean I'm a man in a woman's body.
#5 - Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:59 PM EDTI told you that you were a chick version of me. Now it turns out you are just my evil twin and not a girl at all.
I haven't been a girl for 20 years, dear. Ise a woman.
Maybe I'm you in a woman's body.
I'd like to be a man in a woman's body- just for maybe an hour a day.
Ah, @!$%# it. I'm going there. You started it, Nycam.
I'd like to have a man in this woman's body--just for maybe an hour a day.
YOU started it, VB, reminding me that
Ise a woman.
Now, how can a red-blooded (haven't checked in a month or two) American (still) hetero (so far so good) male (definitely) just let that slide?
Bring it on! (Bushism)
This article was from 2005. Is this data even relevant?
#7 - Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:49 PM EDTThis article was from 2005. Is this data even relevant?
Its pretty bad when two years of internet seems like a span of ages...
"Back in the day we didn't have Google, we had Lycos and other now kaput search engines, and we were damn proud of it!"
Eeeh.... an article from 2005, before Gmail was open to the masses? The webmail landscape has changed a lot in the last two years. But some things are the same.
Yahoomail was one of my first webmail accounts, started back in the days when there was Yahoo and Hotmail before it was acquired by Microsoft.
I still have Yahoo and Google accounts. Since joining Google, the Yahoo email account is lucky if it gets used enough to stay open. The simple reason is speed: it takes TOO LONG in Yahoomail to do anything. Just opening a message takes two or three times longer than on Gmail. There are a host of other areas where it just fails miserably to do what I want but it's mainly too slow.
When I want my email, I want it 20 seconds ago. Typical male huh? :)
Many of my women friends are happy with Yahoo and won't use Gmail, and for the life of me I can't understand it. But why women do things is often a mystery to me anyway. *shrug*
#8 - Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:36 AM EDTI don't like web-based email at all so it would take a lot of convincing for me to do any of them.
P.S. the artcle was from yesterday. Some of the data was from 2005 but there aren't many instances ( well, in science, and I know this isn't science ) where by April you have data that makes proper sense for the prior year. I doubt that men and women have changed all that much fundamentally thought the percentages may have.
Eeeh.... an article from 2005, before Gmail was open to the masses? The webmail landscape has changed a lot in the last two years. But some things are the same.
And I'll still argue to be the woman who proves it wrong ;o) But then I'm teased for being a tech-head by my colleagues - even though it's my job to be.
I didn't like Yahoo in 2005 and I still don't like it. I had a Gmail account when it was still in the early days of finding someone who had invites. I also use their calendars at work and home and managed to get our office an another sharing them to make life easier for us all.
As kikaiju mentioned above, this study is from 2005, which is quite outdated by Internet standards. And 2005 was before all the social networking sites became part of the mainstream consciousness (i.e. MySpace, Facebook, etc.) I doubt as many men these days are saying "screw the community" when community is just about the hottest thing on the Internet these days.
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