Older internet users most likely to use top 10 sites

IRELAND’S top 10 websites are more likely to be visited by computer buffs in their golden years than those enjoying their first flush of youth.

New research from Net Behaviour shows that last year almost 90% of internet users aged 55 and over visited the search engine Google, the nation’s number one website.

By contrast 79% of computer users aged 16 and 17 visited Google, also putting teenagers behind the 86% of computer-savvy 45 to 54-year-olds who ‘Googled’ for everything from news to gossip and facts.