I usually expect to find the search box at the top right of a page, but once I went looking for sites with search functionality, I didn’t find many. Maybe I didn’t find many because I was only looking around the top right of the page, but I guess that says a lot for the importances of standards.
I don’t often use the search functionality, but I read somewhere that many people do prefer to use a search tool, rather than exploring a site’s pages. As there are different preferences, I think it’s good to include it, and I like having it there just in case I can’t find something …
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