This statistic gives information on the seach engine usage confidence of U.S. search users in 2012. During the survey, it was found that 56 percent of U.S search users felt very confident about their own searching abilities when using a search engine to find information online.
How confident are you about your own searching abilities when using a search engine to find information online?
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Pew Research Center. (March 12, 2012). How confident are you about your own searching abilities when using a search engine to find information online? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/248581/search-engines-usage-confidence-of-us-search-users/
Pew Research Center. "How confident are you about your own searching abilities when using a search engine to find information online?." Chart. March 12, 2012. Statista. Accessed August 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/248581/search-engines-usage-confidence-of-us-search-users/
Pew Research Center. (2012). How confident are you about your own searching abilities when using a search engine to find information online?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/248581/search-engines-usage-confidence-of-us-search-users/
Pew Research Center. "How Confident Are You about Your Own Searching Abilities When Using a Search Engine to Find Information Online?." Statista, Statista Inc., 12 Mar 2012, https://www.statista.com/statistics/248581/search-engines-usage-confidence-of-us-search-users/
Pew Research Center, How confident are you about your own searching abilities when using a search engine to find information online? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/248581/search-engines-usage-confidence-of-us-search-users/ (last visited August 24, 2024)
How confident are you about your own searching abilities when using a search engine to find information online? [Graph], Pew Research Center, March 12, 2012. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/248581/search-engines-usage-confidence-of-us-search-users/