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The link is an improvement over nothing, at a minimum it will cut down on the number of newbies posting 'how do I search' questions, at least, if they scan the footer. Experience shows that this is probably not the case but then at least we can point them to the link without having to explain site prefixes, which is still a net gain. If it were in the header (which is pretty crowded) it would be more useful, but I ca…
I haven't been here very long but I have never seen a post by PG with no upvotes. This thread has two - something is amiss.
Here's one where PG was actually downvoted into oblivion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190451