[officemonkey]

On the other hand, how often do you type any search engine into the URL field? It's either bookmarked or it's automatically set as your search engine.

[edanm]

Actually, the use case is more for someone like me - I remember that I want to try DDG once in a while, so I decide to visit it, and then I can't remember the shortcut and am annoyed that I have to type in the whole name.

Obviously serious users of DDG don't have any problem with it.