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Imagine you wanted to use the Web to find out information about a candidate for political office. What would you do? N. First site mentioned.
First website mentioned for candidate information · Asked in 1 wave, 2000 · 1,028 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
| Group | No specific search engine mentioned | Yahoo | Aol | Cnn | Msn | Excite | Webferret | Lycos | Altavista | Usatoday | Copernic | Peoplefind.com | Abc | Msnbc | Infoseek go | Dogpile | Snap | Metacrawler | Webcrawler | Netscape | Iwon | Politics.com | Homp page search engine | Nbc | n | MoE | ||
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| All respondents |
General Social Survey 2000 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
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| General Social Survey 2000 | 2000-02-01 to 2000-06-25 | face to face | 2,817 | 1,028 |
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| White | 75% | 12% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | – | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 804 | ±4 |
| Black | 86% | 5% | 2% | 1% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1% | – | 2% | – | – | 106 | ±11 |
| Hispanic | 71% | 21% | 5% | 1% | – | – | 1% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 69 | ±14 |
| Asian † | Too few respondents | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14 | ±30 |
| Other † | 82% | 12% | – | 4% | – | – | 2% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 35 | ±18 |