Looking at that issue of consciously deciding whether to search from another angle, if I haven't decided yet, why would I want to inform Google of what I'm typi

Looking at that issue of consciously deciding whether to search from another angle, if I haven't decided yet, why would I want to inform Google of what I'm typing? Perhaps it's a private address of a private server with private information in the query string. In any case, if I do decide to search, the search field is just a ctrl+k away, so the additional convenience of combining the fields never seemed that great to me. (But for Google, of course, it's a very convenient property of this design that everything the user types happens to end up being sent to Google.)