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Internet World Stats News
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Number 017 -
April, 2006
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Internet Usage in EU25
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Editorial
The Internet is many things to different
people. For some it is a magical wad, some sort of
extraterrestrial force. For others it is a new way to enjoy
entertainment and gaming. For others it is a way to socialize
with new friends and for dating. For others, it is the new way to
do business and politics.
However, before this huge interconnected global market and
community can be useful and productive to anyone, you need to do
a lot of market research to find the opportunities and the
problems for accessing the various segments of this huge market,
the needs and wants of the worldwide consumers, the niche
markets, and so forth, the list is long.
Internet World Stats helps you to find the size and the location
of the Internet Markets, today estimated at 1,022,863,307
people. For the market research part, we have established a new
sister web site called All About Market Research. There you will find market research tools, news
articles, and a coaching library. Content is being selected and
added all the time, so visit this new site frequently.
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Statistics
Internet Usage in the European Union in 2005
Eurostat, the European Union statistical
office, has released its 'Internet usage in the EU25' report for
2005. In the EU, more than 40 per cent of individuals use the
Internet at least once a week. Across all 25 member states, 48
per cent of households and 91 per cent of enterprises had access
to Internet services in 2005; 23 per cent and 63 per cent of
them, respectively, had broadband connections.
Household Internet access ranged from 16 per cent in Lithuania
to 78 per cent in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands,
Luxembourg, Denmark and Sweden over 70 per cent of households
have with Internet access. Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Greece,
Hungary and Slovakia all had rates under 25 per cent.
In the EU students show the highest rate of Internet access of
any user group, with 79 per cent going online at least once a
week. More than half of the employed people (55 per cent) do so,
while less than a third of the unemployed (32 per cent) do. In
the EU, more men than women (49 per cent compared to 38 per cent)
access the Internet regularly.
The report summary (pdf) is available here download
report. For further information,
please visit the Eurostat web site.
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Demographics
Hispanics in the United States
The Pew
Research Center has published a
report about the Hispanic population in the United States. The
2000 census marked the Hispanic population at 35.3 million
people, an increase of 58% over 1990. Since then, growth has
continued at a brisk pace. The total Hispanic population in 2004
was 40.4 million. That is a jump of more than 14% in just four
years. The impact of Latino population growth is magnified by the
fact that the white and African-American populations are not only
stable in size but also aging. As the huge baby boom generation
moves toward retirement, young Latinos are filling in behind
them.
United
States Population Snapshot, 2004
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Race and
Ethnicity
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Population
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Percent
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Hispanic
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40,424,528
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14
%
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-- Native
born
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22,381,207
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7.7
%
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-- Foreign
born
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18,043,321
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6.2
%
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Non-hispanic,
white
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194,876,871
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68
%
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Non-hispanic,
black
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34,919,473
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12
%
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Non-hispanic,
Asian
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12,342,486
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4
%
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Non-hispanic,
other
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5,717,108
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2
%
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Total
population
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288,280,465
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100
%
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Source:
Pew Hispanic Center
tabulations from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement,
Current Population Survey, March, 2004.
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The Hispanic population is not a racial
group, nor does it share a common language or culture. The single
characteristic that all Hispanics share in common is a connection
by ancestry to Latin America. This population, in fact, traces
its origins to many countries with varied cultures, and while
some Latinos have family histories in the United States that date
back centuries, others are recent arrivals. Some speak only
English, others only Spanish, and many are bilingual. See the Pew report
(pdf).
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Market Research
New Tools for Researching the Web
Seekport.co.uk is search engine for the UK
and Europe. It also features a very useful free tool
called seekbot that was developed to help webmasters check and adapt
their web pages to ensure they are built to a good standard for
search engines and gain a good ranking on the search engines.
Seekbot will count the number of internal and external links on
each page. For search, try Seekport , I am sure that
you will find it very useful.
Another useful search engine is Yahoo Site Explorer.
It is meant for finding information about URLs and does not
support general search queries. Here is how it works: after you
type your URL and click on the Explore URL button, you'll see a
page with 50 results. Note that, unlike a web search, where users
are looking for content, Yahoo Site Explorer results do not
include abstracts. It counts and shows all the links for the
indexed pages, exploring the web site structure.
And to complete the list, last but not least, here is a search
engine that is specialised for searching the news: topix.net. Try it for
researching the world news, the blogs, and local news, as well as
thousands of news channels. It makes use of artificial
intelligence and special algorithms to produce its unique results
pages. And also check our Search Engines section where you can find many more links to all type of
useful search engines.
Very truly yours,
Enrique de Argaez,
editor and webmaster
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