I been notice that, even we start a search on the Google text box instead appear our last keywords inserted as have been, it comes up the top domains right-a-way. I think to the eyes of the user this can be good, to show quicker the results Google is going to show in the results. For the webmasters that’s very bad and no democratic. I been notice that older domains with .com comes up more easily then others making the user to click on the domains they show below the text box…..

Originally Posted by chrishirst

The problem is that we are not the average "Google user"

Google have determined through their tracking and testing that the "averager user" is not looking to discover new things.
This is mostly due to the "man in the street" knowing very little about URIs etc, and repeating a search then clicking to the same result rather than "bookmarking", copying the URI in some way and going straight to the page. I have lost track of the number of times I have seen people open a browser, type Google into the MSN/Bing/Live search box, click on the first result, then start searching because they did not know that they could type www.google.com into the address bar and go there directly. "What's an address bar"? is probably the question I have been asked most!!
These are Google's target users, not the world of webmasters etc.

Things are changing, right? Many young people now (many of them are well educated?), who have a better understanding of computer and internet are becoming the average users of Google, they have no idea of what webmasters are, but surely they are looking for new things, and they know how to use Google.

And I do not think they are satisfied with the same page whenever they do a search on Google, they also need more new things.