Only about 15percentt of consumers used a search engine to locate their most recent online purchase, according to Carrie A. Johnson, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.
For instance, when I used a search engine to find Cricket Hill Garden, which grows exquisite tree peonies, I was linked in less than a minute to the garden's home page, www.treepeony.com.com
Seems simple, but it isn't, as anyone who has used a search engine to call up dozens of wrong answers can tell you.
For this purpose, we used a search engine, Scripta Sinica (2014), (http://hanchi.ihp.cinica.edu.tw) provided by Academia Sinica in Taiwan (http://www.sinica.edu.tw) that incorporates all the text data.
The study found that as much as 80% of the web surfers polled had used a search engine to find web sites in the past month, higher than any other method.
One person used a search engine to find the "best" method after previous failed attempts with different methods though she ended up trying a different way than what she researched online.
