Http://www.google.com/web is highly confusing.

Would you accept "Welcome to Google's university search of Adrian College" to be less confusing, since the word 'university' is not repeated?

O/T Their university-specific search is nothing new; they've had the feature for several years. Other topic specific searches are at the bottom of this page: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

I don't understand what's confusing.

The whole "Welcome to Google's university search of Old Dominion University" part.

I'm sorry, I still don't get it; could you be more precise?

The fact that an apparently generic sounding resource, http://www.google.com/web, is a highly-specific niche search, I expect.

Some day people will learn that URIs are for computers (not computer operators), and that they shouldn't be confused by them.

Please note RFC 2396, which defines URI's, and in particular section 1.5, which details the importance of a URI scheme that can be written on a paper napkin by hand.

Instead of searches like this for each university site, they should just direct users to the documentation on their site:<url> command.

Downvotes...nice.