Most Web surfers can’t name this famous tech executive

By | November 25, 2014

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More people can define what a URL is than identify a photo of best-selling author and prominent Facebook (FB) executive Sheryl Sandberg. That’s one takeaway from a Pew Research Center test of American Internet users’ knowledge about digital technology and its concepts, history, leaders and applications. Pew conducted a national survey of 1,066 Internet users that posed 17 questions on technology matters. While 83% of survey respondents could identify a photo of Microsoft (MSFT) o-founder Bill Gates (the highest percentage in the poll), just 21% could name Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer and author of “Lean In.” Apparently Web surfers need to lean in and learn more about one of the most high-profile female business executives today. By comparison, 69% of respondents knew what URL stands for. The remaining 31% didn’t know it means uniform resource locator, the technical term for a Web site address. The Web IQ report found… Scalper1 News

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