Aarrrgh! It's true. I have also been doing this, which explains why I can
only find out information about topics I already know. For those areas I'm
not familiar with, bizarre buzzwords never set in my memory. I don't even
think I read them: "...crossed the radish, Rmpphmmm smmtmvm, with the
cabbage, Brmmphmm olmmlmmm, trying to produce...".
I suppose it's an improvement that you need to be a domain expert to search
effectively, instead of having to be a search system expert. It's
interesting that we're seeing a proliferation of guide services (The Mining
Company, Netguide, Excite & Yahoo, the Subject Clearinghouse), where you
only need to find one site on a topic to learn the basics & the buzzwords.
A nice split in information access methods between experts and novices.
-Drea
("hapax legomena", "hapax legomena", got to practice!!)