[_jal]

...For certain values of "people", sometimes. I sure don't, it is imprecise, more failure prone and generally gives worse results.

This reminds me of telcos trying to get in to content. "Humans appear to value short audiovisual bursts of stimulation. We shall conquer all by providing all the memes!" And then they knife Tumblr.

It isn't that "people" "want" one search method over another. The search grammar is not why they're there.