世論 What Japan Thinks

Recently japan.internet.com reported on a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research Inc into browser start pages, in particular in this article, on settings on work computers.

Demographics

One the 16th of October 2007 331 members of the JR Tokai Express Research online monitor group who were employed in the private or public sectors completed a private online questionnaire. 83.1% were male, 10.6% in their twenties, 42.0% in their thirties, 33.8% in their forties, 11.8% in their fifties, and 1.8% in their sixties.

The official word is that my employers’ intranet works best with Internet Explorer, although I suspect that is code for “we can’t be bothered testing it with anything else”, and best is a relative term. Anyway, regardless of that, I use Opera as my primary browser as it is easy to switch off images and embedded Flash and other objects, not that I need to do that as I of course never ever visit any non-work-related sites. Actually, Opera 9 is banned because it contains a BitTorrent client which might spontaneously start spewing company secrets, or something. My start page is set to nothing at all, with my home browser set the same way. Internet Explorer is set to point to the intranet just because that’s what I mainly use it for.

Following some feedback on an earlier post, I’ve added in hyperlinks to SQs, as I’ve had at least two people mention my use of (to SQ) was confusing. I hope they help!

Research results

Q1: Is your computer at work connected to the internet? (Sample size=331)

Yes (to SQ1)	92.4%
No	2.7%
Don’t have PC at work	3.6%
Other	1.2%

Q1SQ1: Have you selected the start page for your browser? (Sample size=306)

Yes (to SQ2)	60.5%
No, just use the default	9.2%
No, use the work-specified one	28.1%
Other	2.3%

Q1SQ2: What start page do you have selected currently? (Sample size=185)

MSN, Yahoo, other portal site	42.2%
Google, other search engine page	26.5%
Work web page	18.9%
Microsoft, other OS maker’s home apge	2.2%
News site home apge	1.6%
Provider’s web page	1.6%
Related company, organisation home page	1.1%
Hotmail, Gmail, other web mail page	1.1%
PC maker’s home page	0.5%
Shopping site home page	0.5%
Newspaper home page	0.5%
Customer web page	0.0%
Opera, Firefox, other browser home page	0.0%
Other	3.2%