You should link to the search that provides the same results. You can even use lmgtfy.com if you're feeling bitchy. I'd say Ryan Tomayko knows how to use Google; did you do any background on him?
By your logic, Wikipedia should just link to searches too; but then it wouldn't be Wikipedia.
Ask someone working in hypertext long enough to know what VERONICA stands for -- they'll know what HREF means!
But funny you mention Wikipedia. Looks like it has the answer:
> with the attribute "href" (HREF is an abbreviation for "Hypertext REFerence"[3])
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink
> [3] Tim Berners-Lee, Making a Server ("HREF" is for "hypertext reference")
4th one down "hypertext reference ..." unless I guessed wrong?
In thinking of "href" as "head reference", you are providing a URI (possibly also a target URL) from your source document -- the tail -- to the intended destination, the head.
I'm unclear what this looks like from the head's perspective. Is the tail/head distinction absolute, or relative and dependent upon the current document's perspective? If absolute, then the tail might be viewed as the link's instantiator.