Enquiring Mimes» Search Engine http://enquiringmimes.com/wp Tools and Technology for Adults Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:26:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 You do know what a browser is, don’t you? http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2009/06/23/you-do-know-what-a-browser-is-dont-you/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2009/06/23/you-do-know-what-a-browser-is-dont-you/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:39:47 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=2331 I went on and on about web browsers last week. I wrote about the different ones and how there was a new browser war underway. Did you follow me?

The reason I ask, is Google sent a team into Times Square in NYC to ask about browsers and found that only 8% of the folks interviewed actually knew what was a browser. Most seemed to confuse browsers and search engines.

Now this was probably a pretty unscientific sample but also probably fairly typical. I’m not sure Google’s point in this exercise but it comes off a bit like a sequence of Jay Leno’s “Jay Walking”.

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