Sam Spicer — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:25:44 GMT

Excellent article.
One of my favorite search tactics is what I call “browse bypass.”
If I want to browse, but don’t want to spend time weaving through a sites heirarchy, I’ll search for an item that I know to be within the category that I am searching. Once at the detail page, I’ll latch onto a breadcrumb or some other heirarchical reference to the immediate parent category. Then I’ll back out to the category level and proceed to browse.
I think that I found this to be particularly helpful when Amazon was in full tab/sprawl mode. I could get so twisted around on their category labelling that it just seemed easier.
Of course, I’m hoping that the site I’m searching on with provide me with a breadcrumb or other mechanism to latch onto to orient myself once I’m there.

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