[mortenjorck]

Is that a UI design pattern to decrease server load?

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with search in the footer, but it defies 15 years of convention and thus takes a big hit to discoverability.

[lanstein]

How long has it existed? How did I miss this?

[jmatt]

Yeah I nearly missed it too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736