{"id":1018,"date":"2006-11-06T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/internet-users-searchers-or-surfers\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:58","slug":"internet-users-searchers-or-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/internet-users-searchers-or-surfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Users: Searchers or Surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Does Internet based content find you or do you find it? There seems to be two types of Internet users: 1) searchers and 2) surfers. Searchers seek information. Surfers seek <span>inspiration<\/span>. While a <span>searcher<\/span> can sometimes be a surfer and vice versa, searchers say, &#8220;Need it? <span>Google<\/span> it&#8221;, and surfers say, &#8220;I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/\">Stumbled <\/a>on it&#8221; or &#8220;It appeared in my feed reader&#8221;. I came to this realization when someone mentioned to me that<br \/>\nhe just searches for stuff on the <span>Internet<\/span> when he NEEDS it. How <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Google\">1996<\/a>, I thought! However, I began to think about what I do with all of that content I collect as a die hard surfer. I came to the realization that lately I haven&#8217;t actually tried most of my &#8220;finds&#8221;. Instead, I usually dump them into my <span>del<\/span>.<span>icio<\/span>.us folder to try at a later date. In my quest to find the latest and greatest <span>edtech<\/span> &#8220;inspiration&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtalk.com\/taxonomy\/term\/130\">see <span>EdTechWeekly<\/span><\/a>), I have found I am at an Internet surfing tipping point &#8211; too much of a good thing, as they say! Content aggregation overload has caused a <span>disturbing<\/span> ailment- content paralysis! I&#8217;m at a strange place where the act of surfing for content has disrupted my enjoyment and use of the content I find. So, I&#8217;m going to take a cue from the searchers out there and &#8220;step away from the <span>aggregator<\/span>&#8221; for a few days. I can still turn to <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/\">StumbleUpon<\/a><\/span> if I need a &#8220;fix&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:right;\">technorati tags:<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/StumbleUpon\" rel=\"tag\">StumbleUpon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Internet\" rel=\"tag\">Internet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Surfing\" rel=\"tag\">Surfing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Internet based content find you or do you find it? There seems to be two types of Internet users: 1) searchers and 2) surfers. Searchers seek information. Surfers seek inspiration. While a searcher can sometimes be a surfer and vice versa, searchers say, &#8220;Need it? Google it&#8221;, and surfers say, &#8220;I Stumbled on it&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}