I found this interesting aside in an article linked from reddit:
And there’s the scary, unsexy truth about search, the one you’ll never read about in a search engine’s top-10 list: Most people aren’t really searching. They’re using search engines as navigation, typing website names or even URLs into the search box that automatically pops up in their browser.
I know that many the “search” feature of many websites simply reproduces canned results for popular searches [E.g., "live" on Microsoft]. I would not be surprised if “real” search engines were doing the same.
