The aim of this article is to study how students search for relevant information on the internet, focussing on their use of sources and search strategies in order to accomplish given tasks. In addition, the aim was to study what type of seekers’ profiles can be found in different tasks. By digital literacy, we mean the critical assessment and use of digital technologies and competences in digital communication and discourse. Finnish L2 students of French (n=10) and Spanish (n=10) took part in a translation course and participated in a three-part small-scale qualitative study: a translation task, a pedagogical intervention and a translation commentary task. In this article we focus on the seekers’ paths and strategies forming seekers’ profiles in tasks one and two. The results showed that the seekers’ profiles tend to remain similar for different tasks. The number of queries used did not always result in success in terms of finding the correct answer.