A question for you…

I am a member of LinkReferral.com and someone there reviewed my business web site harshly because I had a Google search bar at the bottom of each page.

Now, my thoughts when I put it there, were I wanted someone to be able to search my website (or the web) for content related to my web site. Still like that thought. He’s comments were it trashed my web site, made it look cheap, and would chase people off.

Your thoughts?