That was sensible. Actually, I do search from the address bar, but I have it set up such that there's no default search engine. I have to prefix my query with "

That was sensible. Actually, I do search from the address bar, but I have it set up such that there's no default search engine. I have to prefix my query with "g" for Google, "gi" for Google images, "w" for Wikipedia, "y" for Yandex, and so on. On the semantic web thing, in the end, it turned out URLs are useful for everyone — at the very least because a URL is something you can share with other people and be sure they'd reliably end up seeing the exact resource you want to direct them to. Same can not be said about anything that involves web searching. Search results move around all the time for a million different reasons.