Information foraging

Information foraging is a way of thinking about how people search for information. It's based on the idea that people search for information like animals search for food: If you think of information as something we have to look for, like food animals need to find, information foraging is about how we look for it. Information foragers think about things like where we look for information, what paths lead us to what kinds of information, and how to go about making our search effective.