译文:调查:Google自己很流行 
越来越多的美国人用google在网上搜自己的信息，很多人也用它查寻朋友、同事或浪漫的爱好的信息。
 
周日的一篇报道说，Pew网络（pew Internet）和美国生活计划（American Life Project）的调查结果显示有47%的美国成年网民利用google或其它搜索引擎检索关于自己的信息。
 
2002年的调查结果为22%，现在的结果是它的两倍，可是Pew的高级研究员玛利.麦登认为这个结果还不算高。
 
她说：“增加了一倍，可是还有相当多的网民从来没有尝试过用引擎搜索自己的名字。增加是增加了，但是我不知道这能否与我们发布到网上或别人发布的关于我们的大量的信息相当。”
 
有60%的人不担心别人在网上发布他们的信息内容，只是担心这些信息的用途。
 
50岁以下的美国人和那些接受过高等教育并且收入高的人更喜欢用google检索自己，因为他们的工作需要与某些网上的人联系。
 
相比之下，Pew的调查发现，有53%的成年网民承认检索过别人的信息，还不包括名人。
 
他们经常是为了搜索失去联络的人，但是搜索自己的朋友、亲戚、同事和邻居的信息的情况也很普遍。
 
尽管男人与女人一样，在网上搜索关于他们自己的信息，女人更喜欢搜索她们要约会的人的信息。
 
一般情况下，这种搜索无伤大雅，只是为了查寻某人的联系方式。但是有1/3的人是为了查找公开的档案记录，诸如破产者和离婚诉讼程序，还有1/3的人是为了搜索别人的照片。
 
Pew网络的用户说他们经常用google引擎搜索自己，大约3/4的自我检索者说他们只搜过一两次。更多的人这样做是为了验证他们的发现是否准确，只有4%的网民认为网上令人尴尬或不准确的信息会导致不愉快的体验。
 
Pew的调查还发现，与我们通常认为的相反，十几岁的青少年比成年人更不愿意人们在网上，如facebook或new`s corp`s上看到他们的照片。
 
麦登说：“青少年更喜欢用其它程序，我想可能是他们的老师或父母告诉过他们，要小心他们发布到网上的信息，而且是与谁共享的。”
 
去年，在11月30日-12月30日对1，623网民进行了一项电话调查，抽样结果与上述调查有±3%的误差。


原文:Study: Googling Oneself Is More Popular
More Americans are Googling themselves - and many are checking out their friends, co-workers and romantic interests, too.

In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U.S. adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine.

That is more than twice the 22 percent of users who did in 2002, but Pew senior research specialist Mary Madden was surprised the growth wasn't higher.

"Yes it's doubled, but it's still the case that there's a big chunk of Internet users who have never done this simple act of plugging their name with search engines," she said. "Certainly awareness has increased, but I don't know it's necessarily kept pace with the amount of content we post about ourselves or what others post about us."

About 60 percent of Internet users said they aren't worried about the extent of information about themselves online, despite increasing concern over how that data can be used.

Americans under 50 and those with more education and income were more likely to self-Google - in some cases because their jobs demand a certain online persona.

Meanwhile, Pew found that 53 percent of adult Internet users admit to looking up information about someone else, celebrities excluded.

Often, it's to find someone they've lost touch with. But looking up information about friends, relatives, colleagues and neighbors also was common.

Although men and women equally searched for online information about themselves, women were slightly more likely to look up information about someone they are dating.

In many cases, the search is innocuous, done to find someone's contact information. But a third of those who have conducted searches on others have looked for public records, such as bankruptcies and divorce proceedings. A similar number have searched for someone else's photo.

Few Internet users say they Google themselves regularly - about three-quarters of self-searchers say they have done so only once or twice. And most who have done so consider what they find accurate. Only 4 percent of Internet users said embarrassing or inaccurate information online resulted in a bad experience.

Pew also found that teens were more likely than adults to restrict who can see their profiles at an online hangout like Facebook or News Corp.'s MySpace, contrary to conventional wisdom.

"Teens are more comfortable with the applications in some ways, (but) I also think they have their parents and teachers telling them to be very careful about what they post and who they share it with," Madden said.

The telephone survey of 1,623 Internet users was conducted between Nov. 30 and Dec. 30 last year and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.