Doesn't this site, and all of the content it links to, pretty much disprove your theory?
Yes, sure, I often do go to the "top sites" when searching for content, but I still usually start at Google. And, despite all the SEO spam, Google still does a fairly decent of landing me on, for example, the appropriate Wikipedia page, Stackoverflow post, travel site, etc.
Yes, sure, I often do go to the "top sites" when searching for content, but I still usually start at Google. And, despite all the SEO spam, Google still does a fairly decent of landing me on, for example, the appropriate Wikipedia page, Stackoverflow post, travel site, etc.