User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-26113331-20120506190904/@comment-1656630-20120507185415

Redirects still guide visitors to the page you'd like them to get to. For links, it takes them directly there. For search results pages, it defines the top result so they're most likely to click on it. We're also working on plans to have it influence the search suggestions, as well.