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Google Removes Search Box From Results Page? When Using Chrome's Omnibox

13 pointsdavidkatz13y ago7 comments

No Google search box for searches done with Chrome's Omnibox.

http://cl.ly/image/3U3l2A3l2D1j

Bold move. Anyone else seeing this?

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lukeman13y ago· 1 in thread

Also the case on iOS Chrome: http://d.pr/i/9pwK

I think I first noticed it a week or two ago on desktop and iOS, so not sure if it's a version thing or an a/b test.

davidkatzOP13y ago

Interesting. I checked with a few people that have my version, and they don't see it. Seems like a test.

princeverma13y ago· 1 in thread

I saw this for couple of days, but now I can't. It was really annoying :(

davidkatzOP13y ago

I actually like it. It takes some getting used to, but it helps me fumble less when I start a search. Now I just go direct to Omnibox everytime.

msoad13y ago

It's happening on my Chrome for iOS for a week or so. I like it.

I also have new cleaner homepage that has almost no header

http://i.imgur.com/bw4KpgC.png

garblegarble13y ago

This really creeped me out when I saw it on the dev channel - enough that after using Chrome exclusively since 2009 I've moved to Firefox.

I love searching through the omnibox (and will go to the omnibox to refine a google search result page I'm on) but there's something deeply unsettling about integrating Google Search and Chrome in this way - I can't quite put my finger on it but I think it's because the URL isn't shown

turboroot13y ago

This was on for a while when I was on Chrome's dev release channel. It annoyed me, so I switched to beta.

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