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Author Tancer, Bill.

Title Click : what millions of people are doing online and why it matters / by Bill Tancer
Edition First edition
Published New York, N.Y. : Hyperion, 2008

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Description xi, 221 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Part I. Understanding ourselves -- 1. PPC: porn, pills, and casinos -- 2. Getting to the what we really think -- 3. Prom in January -- 4. Failed resolutions & the false hope syndrome -- 5. Celebrity worship syndrome -- 6. What are you afraid of? : and other telling questions -- 7. Web who.0 -- Part II. What's possible with what we know -- 8. Data rocks and the television-Internet connection --9. Women wrestlers and arbitraging financial markets --10. Finding the early adopters -- 11. Super-connectors and predicting the next rock star -- Epilogue. Who we are and why it matters -- Notes -- Glossary
Summary "In Click, Bill Tancer takes us behind the scenes into the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth about how we use the Web, navigate to sites, and search for information - and what all of that says about who we are. Tancer demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way we absorb information and how understanding that change can be used to our advantage in business and in life."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-209) and index
Subject Internet users -- United States -- Psychology.
Web usage mining.
LC no. 2008016758
ISBN 9781401323042 hardback