Class Survey

A survey that included forty-three subjects was conducted in a Communication Technology course at the University of Illinois at Chicago regarding the September 11^th terrorist attacks and Internet usage. Subjects were asked to respond to five questions.

1. Twenty-five students (58%) used search engines to retrieve information regarding the attacks and eighteen students (42%) did not.

2. Fifteen students (35%) always find the information they are looking for on search engines, twenty-eight students (65%) do not.

3. Thirty-three students (77%) did not notice any changes to search engines after the attacks, while ten students (23%) did.

4. Students were asked how often they used search engines. Twenty-eight students (65 %) use them all the time; eleven students (26%) only use them for academic research, and four students (9%) use search engines for other purposes.