Hijacking the search

The search is muddling... I type in say 'Alliance and Leicester' and as this company's not registered, I'm offered a variety of others, now that drop-down that this feature uses hijacked the return key that most people rely on to search (enter phrase, hit return - default to hitting 'go' - remote control mentality set my Google) and don't expect it to select the first option in a drop down, without highlighting or telling you that it's happening. The short cut is so ingrained that even knowing that the site behaves like this, it took me 3-4 attempts to stop doing it and every time I use the search, I forget... go through an irritating loop and have to move my hands all the way from the keyboard to the mouse... please: don't make me think :o)