Neat. I find different people’s search strategies to be quite interesting. Sort of a window onto the thinking process. WTF thinks more like I do. @lefteh‘s approach is something I probably never would have thought of. Obviously, both work.
I wonder if we could design a question for people to find something fairly obscure, and ask them to log their search queries and paths, to see how they approach it? I mean, we could ask, but what would we ask them to search for?
Someone on Askville once asked what the names of the cheeses were in a poster. The poster was low resolution, so you couldn’t read it. I think I searched something like “cheese posters” and then searched through images. I found several, and one of them had a list of the cheeses.