The changing face of navigation

As the vacuum of WWW content begins to fill with meaningful media, the primary navigation of a site will rely less on buttons, and more on queries.

MTV.com

MTV's website is a good example. Rather than shrinking the search field and hiding it in a corner, they have made it the dominant feature front, top and center.

Perhaps the days of tiny hidden search fields that partially work are coming to an end.

We can only hope.