Browsing

Browsing is a kind of orienting strategy. It is supposed to identify something of relevance for the browsing organism. In context of humans, it is a metaphor taken from the animal kingdom. It is used, for example, about people browsing open shelves in libraries, window shopping, or browsing databases or the Internet.

For the type of herbivory, see Browsing (herbivory). For using a web browser, see Web navigation. For the type of shopping, see Window shopping (browsing).
For other uses, see Browser (disambiguation).

In library and information science, it is an important subject, both purely theoretically and as applied science aiming at designing interfaces which support browsing activities for the user.

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