Keyword foraging: the key to better search tools

How this new term can help us understand the way people discover things online.

Charlie Gedeon
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readApr 3, 2021

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An image of a fake search engine with the words “what is keyword foraging?” in it.

Before you look up something online, you might first need to figure out what keywords will help you find it. This has become a common enough occurence that the usability experts at the Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) recently released a term for it…

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