what three years hast wrought

The 2000 General Social Survey asked respondents if they knew the name of any search engines, and then, if they said yes, asked them to name one. Only 12 of the 516 (2.3%) people who said they could name a search engine named "Google." Over 60% said "Yahoo."

Actually, as a trip down cyber-memory-lane, here is the full table:

    name of search |

 engine given by r |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.

-------------------+-----------------------------------

             yahoo |        315       61.05       61.05

             lycos |         33        6.40       67.44

        search.com |          1        0.19       67.64

            gopher |          1        0.19       67.83

       all the web |          1        0.19       68.02

               msn |          7        1.36       69.38

              ebay |          1        0.19       69.57

          infoseek |         10        1.94       71.51

         altavista |         26        5.04       76.55

          explorer |          7        1.36       77.91

          netscape |         14        2.71       80.62

           isearch |          1        0.19       80.81

            excite |         19        3.68       84.50

               aol |         17        3.29       87.79

              java |          1        0.19       87.98

        webcrawler |          4        0.78       88.76

            hotbot |          7        1.36       90.12

            google |         12        2.33       92.44

          copernic |          1        0.19       92.64

        ask jeeves |          3        0.58       93.22

              iwon |          5        0.97       94.19

           dogpile |          6        1.16       95.35

streetviolence.com |          1        0.19       95.54

           browser |          1        0.19       95.74

   northern lights |          1        0.19       95.93

       www.irs.com |          1        0.19       96.12

           netfind |          2        0.39       96.51

         keysearch |          1        0.19       96.71

       metacrawler |          2        0.39       97.09

        uproar.com |          1        0.19       97.29

              snap |          3        0.58       97.87

                go |          2        0.39       98.26

             myway |          1        0.19       98.45

              fuse |          1        0.19       98.64

              espn |          1        0.19       98.84

          goto.com |          1        0.19       99.03

           bizrate |          1        0.19       99.22

          sherlock |          1        0.19       99.42

             lynco |          1        0.19       99.61

         4anything |          1        0.19       99.81

          navistar |          1        0.19      100.00