Search Terminology
Apologies for those hoping this next post would the next installment of the search exercise planners handbook – don’t panic though, it will be written this week.
First though, I’ve been thinking about some search terminology for a while and I wanted to get this off my chest now, as it were.
So often within ALSAR the words Search Techniques are used to mean anything from the search cube and purposeful wandering – which I would actually call search techniques – to how to search a route and path and so on.
These days I have changed the way I use these wordings.
When I talk about “search techniques” now, I am referring to an individual’s searching. When I want to talk about how you would go about searching a field, house or route and path, I now use the wording “search tactics”. Finally, when I am referring to the search management/control team and how they manage the search, I talk about the “search plan”.
I’ll add more search terminology soon…
October 19, 2009
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Lowland Search, Search Control, Search Management, Search Plan, Search Tactics, Search Techniques, Search Terminology · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
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