No term, but I have been finding it shared on forums and social sites
recently. Some of the more common forums will only search for words
with 4 or more letters, making short words and acronyms impossible to
find in the threads and messages. Personally, I use it to game the
localness of craigslist... I just add 'craigslist' to the end of
whatever I am searching... and I get a nation wide search, something
the site does not facilitate.
Mark
On Dec 1, 2008, at 12:01 PM, James Box wrote:
I'm sure we've all witnessed on how common it is for a user-
experience to begin at Google these days, even when the user has a
known destination/item.
I do it myself. For instance, say I want to look up 'Brighton' on
Wikipedia, I find the most efficient method of getting there to
type 'wikipedia brighton' into my browser's in-built google search.
This is all based on the assumption that this will be the first
result (it normally is) and therefore the quickest way for me to
achieve my goal.
This is certainly borne-out in the research I'm doing at the
moment. In some cases, this behaviour seems so habitual that users
will take this route, even when it isn't the most efficient method
of reaching their goal.
My question is, does anyone know if there's a term for this kind of
behaviour?
As an aside, it's interesting how advertising is attempting to
capitalise on this. This film poster (http://bit.ly/b1p5)
encourages people to google 'Mother Lay-By' rather than displaying
the film's URL. What's even better is that it doesn't work!
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