What is Browsing – really?

Brows­ing is the act of engag­ing in a series of glimpses, each of which exposes you to objects of poten­tial inter­est; depend­ing on that inter­est, you may or may not exam­ine more closely one of the objects. What’s inter­est­ing is that brows­ing is not a smooth scan, but rather iter­a­tive fits and starts. A worth­while read that in fact never men­tions web brows­ing specifically.