Friday, December 30, 2011

How long does it take to find an answer?






What's going on?  

There are three things to keep in mind:





And this leads to a search lesson for today... 



Search on! 


  1. The question is: Why are some people fast searchers and others slow searchers in general? I and many of my friends can find just about anything on the internet, yet I know many people that can never find what they are looking for at all. Why? And I guess more interestingly, how do you make the slow searchers into fast searchers?

  2. Tracy -- That's my job... understand why some people search the way they do, and then help them become better, more efficient, more effective searchers. Any ideas on how to do this? (I teach classes and publish content on this topic. Any OTHER ideas?)

  3. I wonder what corollary you could draw about the people who regularly follow your search blog, (the search geeks like myself), and those who found the post via Lifehacker, and may not have otherwise seen the challenge...

  4. As far as helping people to become better at search, I think you keyed in on it when you mentioned "individualistic terms".

    This is how I approach most of my searches, and if I find that I am getting too many stray hits in a certain non-related area, I make sure to exclude that term from my searches as well.