New Advisory Committee Member Training - April 20, 2005 FDA Website It’s Big…  More than 600,000 pages  Growing at >20 percent a year

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New Advisory Committee Member Training - April 20, 2005 FDA Website Where Do They Come From? More than 50,000 sites link to FDA home page 28% of visitors from foreign countries Top Referring Sites:  Google (worldwide)  Yahoo  MSN  Ask Jeeves  National Library of Medicine

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New Advisory Committee Member Training - April 20, 2005 FDA Website