Popular searches in google and yahoo!: A "digital divide" in information uses?

Information Society

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-37

  Segev, Elad ^a   Ahituv, Niv ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CENTRUM CATÓLICA GRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Peru)

Author keywords

Classification of search queries; Digital divide; Entertainment searches; Google zeitgeist; Internet search; Online information uses; Political and economic searches; Yahoo! Buzz

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951040007     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240903423477     Document Type: Article

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