It's true, people may think it's creepy. But there are other values provided by a search engine. A great majority of less IT-savy people types yahoo.com (or yahoo) into google. Or more IT-savy people use search engines to search for pages they have seen before.
We need to see beyond how a search engine is predominantly used by us more-technical folks and look at how real people use it.
We need to see beyond how a search engine is predominantly used by us more-technical folks and look at how real people use it.