> With search you usually know what you are looking for and can pin it down quite well with classic keyword search, discovery happens elsewhere.
Having looked at search terms users enters on a lot of client sites, I don't believe that for a second. Users are exceptionally bad at composing search terms.
You are probably right. Who searches? Is it really just the long-tail that can't be served by good navigation and the most important content in prominent places? Or could one optimize the rest first? (of course, a bit of statistics on what is accessed frequently helps here too)
