I don't want to me mean, or unfair, but learning that a Google search is an effective way of getting back to a site requires not learning some rather simple, and definitely more useful, internet basics. I've often watched people as they close their browser on a particular page that they're viewing and then open it again - to Google, and then run a search for the site they want to get to. Doing this suggests a very basic lack of understanding of how the browser works, but explaining that closing and then opening again is unnecessary never seems to help. It's like knowing the path to somewhere in a city from a particular place, and therefore going first to that place and then taking the known path, even though getting to the desired place from the original starting point may have been considerably easier.

On the other hand, I also have to admit that searching often makes sense. I recall, from quite a few years ago, that a number of teachers and principals of schools that I was in contact with wouldn't print out the URLs of their schools so that people could visit their sites. Instead they simply instructed people to run a search on the name of the school, adding that the desired URL would always be among the first few results. Since often the URLs could be a bit confusing, this was an effective, and even logical, strategy. And considering that search has become such a central part of the internet experience, perhaps these schools were simply ahead of their time.