Trained Behavior? Habit? Behavioral momentum? One trick ponism? Every trick learned as a cost/benefit to using it, but there are also costs to carrying and selecting the tool, ideally if there's only one tool, the cost for selecting it goes to zero. So ones with the most utility end up in the shirt pockets of the mind.
Most users prefer to be spending their thought on more novel aspects like the question at hand, including not remembering exactly the URL or spelling of the words. I find it also interesting that for people who develop/write, having local and web copies of the same information (e.g. a blog, code on google code), searching locally is 100x slower and less relevant than searching the cloud. Part of this could be made better by google for the desktop, part cannot until peers (family) review and hyperlink to that on my desktop. I suspect that this will only happen when semantic web get much smarter. On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:01 AM, James Box <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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! > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
