Search engines' use in daily life grows

"Although Internet search engines have become fixtures in our daily lives, most searchers say they could revert to other ways of finding information if they had to, a new study has found.

Just a third of Internet searchers said they ``couldn't live without search engines'' and 17 percent said they wouldn't care if they suddenly lost access to search tools from companies such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves.
Those are some of the findings of a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which surveyed 2,200 adults in late spring 2004 about how they used search engines.

Overall, the vast majority of Internet users surveyed -- 87 percent -- are happy with the results they get from search engines."