Without the search engines, one could safely say, the Internet becomes meaningless. Just give it a thought, how many websites do you visit by actually typing in their URLs? And compare this with the number of websites you visit by making a search on Google, Yahoo!, Lycos, Ask, MSN or any other such search. This itself will tell you the common people's tendency of using the Internet. Websites are visited in a very major way through search engines, and not by knowing the URL of the site itself.