Actually, it's not the address bar per se, but the search box that's the default home page on so many browsers. For many people "Google" is the "Internet" and t

Actually, it's not the address bar per se, but the search box that's the default home page on so many browsers. For many people "Google" is the "Internet" and they type into the Google box shown by default things like "cnn.com" and the like. I guess Jeff's point may have been aimed at the techie crowd (a Chrome screenshot with a JS example), and for this smaller demographic of web users, I can't agree more.