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Internet Browsing Habits and Domain Choice Preferences of Economic Agricultural Engineers

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May 4, 2004
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Dövényi-Nagy, T. (2004). Internet Browsing Habits and Domain Choice Preferences of Economic Agricultural Engineers. Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, 13, 134-137. https://doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/13/3398
Abstract

The findings below are based on a questionnaire survey carried out in order to establish an internet-based service at the Center of Agricultural Sciences of Debrecen University:
• The typical target group of the service in the short run with a weekly average of 5.9 hours on the web is more active than that for average Hungarian, adult Internet users.
• A professional webportal with a searchable database, primarily incorporating an archive of organized agricultural news, articles, publications, fits well into the internet habits of the target group, which mainly consists of keyword-based information searces and browsing of the latest news.
• The group prefers a short, easily recognizable domain name that refers to agriculture. Accents and foreign sounding words are not taken into account during selection.
• As result of the choice from 43 eligible domains, the order would be the following: agrarunio, agroland, farmvilag, infoagro, farmland.
• The names of magyargazda.hu, agrotrend.hu, agromester.hu, agronomus.hu are acceptable from the individual ideas.