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

by davidkatz on 4/29/13, 9:43 PM with 7 comments

• by msoad on 4/29/13, 10:40 PM

  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

• by garblegarble on 5/6/13, 8:44 AM

  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

• by lukeman on 4/29/13, 9:53 PM

  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.

• by turboroot on 4/30/13, 1:46 AM

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

• by princeverma on 4/29/13, 9:53 PM

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