On: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

[UnoriginalGuy]

That sounds anti-competitive. So is there a reason other search providers aren't being allowed the opportunity to support this functionality?

[pkasting → UnoriginalGuy]

Other engines can access this functionality just fine (and do, as other people have mentioned). We simply don't have UI for you to manually tweak the relevant settings. (There's a bug on adding such UI, but it's low-priority, so no one's gotten to it.)

[TazeTSchnitzel → UnoriginalGuy]

It does, especially since I think IE and possibly Firefox allow other search providers to do this.

[jrockway → UnoriginalGuy]

As far as I know, they are. When I type "en.wikipedia.org" and hit tab, I get auto-completions for Wikipedia content. Same for Bing.