# Vanity Googling

Tthe Pew Internet and American Life Project reported on Sunday that 47 percent of U.S. adult Internet users have Googled* themselves up. Which is more than twice the 22 percent of users who did in 2002.

Luckily, 87 percent of self-searchers reported having found accurate information on themselves, but only 62 percent said that the information they found was what they expected. Fifty-three percent declared looking up information about someone else, celebrities excluded, often to find someone they’ve lost touch with but also to find information about colleagues, friends, neighbors and… potential new hires…

Apparently, men are women seem to search for online informations about themselves in equal proportions, but, when it comes to look up details about someone they’re dating, women are slightly more active. Wow, that’s a surprise, I hope they didn’t spend too much on that one…

*Yes, it’s a real verb, and the American Dialect Society even chose it as the “most useful word of 2002.” It was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006.