Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The answer you're searching for is "Browse" (27 Jan 2005) So, the prevailing research suggests that users tend to prefer to take small, incremental steps through the information space to find relevant information. They tend to browse – even when they know precisely what they are looking for from the onset. But we need to go back to the earlier question. Do people who are browsers switch strategies when they realize the Web is broken? What happens when browsing fails and search works? Do users switch strategies locally? Article URL: http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/jan05.asp Read 41 more articles from Human Factors International sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Why video games shouldn't be like the movies.     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy