oversearch
verbEtymology From over- + search.
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Archaic To search all over.
- To oversearch the fearful ocean1861, Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele, page 89:
2
To search excessively.
- But people undersearch far more than they oversearch: We tend to explore situations less thoroughly than our own goals recommend!1995, David Perkins, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence:
- Oversearching: If you look long enough and hard enough for any particular pattern in a data set, the more you look, the more likely you are to find it—whether it's meaningful or not.2003, Dorian Pyle, Business Modeling and Data Mining, page 363: