I believe it helps to think more abstractly. Search is literally finding things. Think of a dictionary, a stack of papers, a filing cabinet, a helicopter with

I believe it helps to think more abstractly. Search is literally finding things. Think of a dictionary, a stack of papers, a filing cabinet, a helicopter with a spotlight, a bloodhound, triangulation, and on down the scale of abstraction. Get to the core of what the user is trying to accomplish. Come up with some crazy ideas as well as incremental improvements, then talk to people about them and see what resonates.