At the SXSW conference in March, one of the sessions was on "What
people are really doing on the Web".
<http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?
action=show&id=IAP060064>
<http://sxswnotes.pbwiki.com/
What%20People%20Are%20Really%20Doing%20On%20The%20Web>
Some statistics presented that are relevant to browser design:
* One in three of people surveyed had read a Weblog in the past 30
days; one in four in the past 24 hours. Most of these are personal
diaries.
* One in ten had written in a Weblog in the past 30 days.
* One in five had used an online dating service in the past 30 days.
* How often people use search varies widely depending on how many
pages there are in languages that they know. (For example, Russians
search much less often than Americans.)
* People aged 13-24 using Yahoo Search are most often searching for
music, sex, communication, shopping, and games, in that order.
* Mothers using Yahoo are most commonly accessing financial
information, communication, and games, in that order.
* The most commonly searched for word on Yahoo is "google", and
the fourth most common is "yahoo". (My guess: there are a lot of
people who don't understand URLs.)
Some ideas for how Epiphany could make these things easier:
* Better integration of Web pages, bookmarks, and feeds.
* Spell-check.
* Let people save a half-written Weblog post (an entire Web page with
a half-filled-out form) as a draft that they can return to later.
* Include Preview buttons for partially-downloaded music files in the
download manager.
* Include a financial search engine (such as Google Finance) in the
default set of search engines.
* Let people easily associate Weblogs with address book entries and
buddy list entries.
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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