What's the IT Term for Providing Instructions to Find Information?

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The discussion revolves around finding a specific term that describes providing instructions on how to locate information rather than delivering the information directly. An example is given where instead of providing a cookie recipe, one suggests a cookbook and specific search terms within it. Participants humorously note the modern tendency to use "Google" as a verb for searching information online. Suggestions include looking up "information technology terminology" for relevant terms. The conversation highlights the evolving language around information retrieval in the digital age.
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I have heard of a word(s) with the meaning: "instructions on how to find information", so that instead of telling someone a piece of information straight away, one tells how to find the information. For example: Someone asks, I want to eat a great cookie. The answerer gives not the cookie itself but rather tells, Buy cookbook "Aunt Marys best cookies", then look up cookies with lemon, them pick one of them.

The problem is I cannot remember what this word or phrase was.

Anyone cares to inform readers about the standard "words we modern people use"?
 
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'google' ;-) lol
 
lol

go to google and type in 'information technology terminology'
 

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