The Billion Dollar Line of JavaScript: document.f.q.focus();

The Billion Dollar Line of JavaScript: document.f.q.focus();
blogstorm.co.uk

In this case, a way that makes Google money by the bushel-full.

"It is quicker to type “Amazon” into Google and click on the first result than it is to type www.amazon.com into your address bar."

No chance. In fact, I am pretty confident my (essentially) computer-illiterate father could type "www." and ".com" faster than he could search, wait for the page to load, move the mouse over to the first result, and click it. I see where Altoft is trying to go with it, but his argument is poorly worded. He means the "large number of users" that don't know much about computers--or so I think he does.

I would have liked to see him talk about the integration Google already has with Firefox (type "ebay" into the address bar). I haven't looked into why it happens, but sometimes (like with "ebay") Google defaults to "I'm feeling lucky" results, i.e. it will take you straight to the page, but other times it gives you the search results. "scrable" takes me to a specific webpage, but "scrabble" takes me to the search listings.