Have you ever bought goods or services through search ads?The latest mini report from japan.internet.com on a goo Research survey was this one on the 15th regular look at internet advertising.
Demographics
Between the 21st and 24th of June 2011 1,083 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.3% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, and 28.0% aged fifty or older.
Despite having contextual adverts myself, at these points I always do recommend people run an advertisement blocker. My favourite is AdMuncher (affiliate link); it comes with a 30 day free trial so you can see how it works. I love it for the simplicity and that it works with every browsers, so block a URL once and it disappears from everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from goo Research looked at internet telephony, or VoIP, and the report on japan.internet.com focused on a pair of questions about Skype.
Demographics
Between the 13th and 16th of June 2011 1,091 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.4% in their fifties, and 12.4% aged sixty or older.
I’m surprised with the high percentage using Skype on their smartphones; I wonder what the pattern of usage is? Do people leave it always loaded as a replacement for the phone, or do they just load it up for specific calls, or do they send an email to tell the other end to load up the program? Perhaps one day I’ll find a report on that… Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 8th and 12th of June 2011 1,082 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.3% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.
I must agree that Google does produce the best results, but Japanese to English is always a tricky task due in no small part to subjects or objects often being dropped from sentences, the present and future tenses being identical, singular versus plural often not distinguished, etc, etc. As Google Translate says japan.internet.com (or is that comb the Internet?) summed up:
With news of LulzSec and other hackers making off with passwords, and other attacks based around people’s GMail accounts, this recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into email passwords is rather timely. Note that I have previously translated an older survey into passwords.
Demographics
Over the 31st of May and the 1st of June 2011 1,077 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.7% of the sample were male, 17.0% in their teens, 17.7% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 16.1% in their fifties, and 11.8% aged sixty or older.
I have absolutely no idea what my email passwords are! My Gmail ones are 20 characters long and randomly generated and managed by KeePass (fiddly to get the hang of, but this is a good tutorial) and my ISP one is the one they supplied, a 10 character mixed case alphanumeric one. My wife, without any training from me, keeps her in text files and uses a different one for each site, at least 8 characters long and a mix of usually names and semi-random numbers. Not the best of security, but at least she varies on every site, which in practise might actually provide more overall security than one big long one used everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on the result of goo Research’s 28th regular survey into mobile phone users computer use.
Demographics
Between the 6th and 8th of June 2011 1,086 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private mobile phone internet-based questionnaire. 53.4% of the sample were female, 2.7% in their teens, 24.4% in their twenties, 35.9% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, and 9.6% aged sixty or older.
The text of the article answers one big question I had about this survey – the mobile monitor group includes smartphone users, but both ordinary mobile phones (or feature phones, or gala-kei as the slang labels them) users and smartphone users were grouped together under the same label here. However, both the article and I hope that in the future they will split out smartphone users. Personally, I feel the percentage reporting a mobile phone as their main device indicates that there are few smartphone users in that group, and the article too speculates that there will be a trend towards the smartphone web as people’s main viewing platform. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, was their 70th regular real-time mobile users survey, with the focus on mobile shopping.
Demographics
Between the 20th and 30th of May 2011 1,100 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor pool completed a mobile phone-based questionnaire. 60.7% of the sample were female, 4.7% in their teens, 26.6% in their twenties, 35.0% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, and 8.3% aged fifty or older.
A little apology for being a bit quiet for the last few days, but I’m currently in Germany at a rather busy conference. Normal service should be resumed next week! Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com reported on a recent survey from goo Research into domestic appliances, their 9th regular survey on this topic.
Demographics
Between the 26th of May and the 1st of June 2011 1,073 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.8% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 18.5% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 15.8% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.
I recently bought a boring old Sanyo hoover, although the wife was interested in a Roomba, mostly for its pinkness.
With the summer fast approaching, bringing with it the prospects of brownouts and blackouts due to a slight problem with a nuclear reactor or six, companies are looking at working from home as one way of reducing the load. The survey was conducted by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com.
Demographics
Over the 23rd and 24th of May 2011 1,072 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 17.0% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 21.3% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 11.8% aged sixty or older.
Of course, working at home doesn’t really save much electricity, and I strongly suspect it actually uses more, as the trains still have to run – I doubt if enough people are going to telelcommute to allow them to decrease the frequency – and each person at home will have their own air conditioner running whilst the office load will probably be barely reduced. About the only benefit I can think of is that if there is a major lack of power, it’s less inconvenient for those who are already home versus having to try to walk or cycle to the suburbs. Read the rest of this entry »
With just over a month to go until the digital switchover on the 24th of July 2011, goo Research took their 19th regular look at digital terrestrial television, as reported on by japan.internet.com.
Demographics
Between the 23rd and 26th of May 2011 1,099 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.1% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.2% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 12.3% aged sixty or older. Note that those in the Tohoku area were excluded from the survey.
Rather than a graph, here’s an advert promoting kiddie-fiddling the digital switchover.
Between the 28th of April and the 5th of May 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were female, 20.1% in their twenties, 20.2% in their thirties, 20.1% in their forties, 19.6% in their fifties, and 19.9% aged sixty or older.
My wife won’t go near anything second-hand, and as for repairing in Japan, I feel unless I have a direct contact with a decent engineer, the average call-out charges or repair costs compare unfavourably with the cost of just buying a replacement item. We’ve had stuff repaired under guarantee – the last time was when our washing machine croaked and they gave us a brand-new latest model upgrade for nothing – but it feels like too much hassle to get older stuff looked at. Read the rest of this entry »
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