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Survey: Search enginesfail to get full satisfaction
NEW YORK -- Google and Yahoo may not be cutting it in the office, a recent survey shows. A whopping 95 percent of professionals use Internet search engines to research information for work, according to a survey from Convera, but just two of five are satisfied with the results. Twenty-one percent of professionals feel that search engines understand their queries, and only one in 10 find exactly what they want on the first attempt. On the second try, 90 percent will try the same search engine using a slightly different term, while 60 percent will try another popular search engine. More than half will turn to a topic-specific search engine.
Poll: Online investorsprefer to reinvest money
NEW YORK -- Instead of using their year-end gains to invest in real estate, most online investors want to put their money back into their portfolios, a recent survey from Scottrade shows. Sixty-three percent of investors plan to put their gains back into an online brokerage account, while only 14 percent plan to buy a house. This marks a departure from recent years when investors had shifted their money to the booming real estate market, according to Scottrade.
Associated Press