[panacea]

"This is the search design for the people who use google to get to their facebook login"

Do you personally even encounter 'Google Instant'?

If I'm not using my browser's search bar, I've got my personalized iGoogle page open.

They've made changes to the vanilla Google homepage which is most likely, predominantly visited by the sort of people who use Google to get to their facebook login anyway.

[awongh]

I do this sometimes too, which is usually when google instant works for me, like when I've visited a page a bunch of times, but I can't be bothered to bookmark it or save the search in some other way, and I know it will come up easily in the first page of results- I just want to get to a page super fast, and it's not a url per se, but something specific I searched for and need again.

I'd say most times I search through my chrome bar, but sometimes I do end up on the google page for whatever reason.