I've been saying it since 2005, navigation on websites is often counterproductive because the vast majority of people are using a search engine to find the page

I've been saying it since 2005, navigation on websites is often counterproductive because the vast majority of people are using a search engine to find the pages/information they want. All you have to do is look at your stats to see this is true. People may say they want navigation but the metrics say otherwise. Meanwhile, according to Matt Cutts, Google has been penalizing websites with "bad navigation" (which is totally subjective, but I digress) meanwhile I'm nudging Google, "You guys are in the search business, don't you want people SEARCHING for pages instead of navigating to them?" People want to search for pages. So why is Google discouraging them from searching and encouraging them to navigate, when first and foremost they are a search engine?