Stop Chrome omnibox from converting search terms to URLs

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for the most time I am searching the internet via Chrome's omnibox. However, wehen entering single words it converts that search term to an URL and sends me to that webpage. Is there a way to turn this off?

Dahlai

Posted 2017-04-25T17:18:15.630

Reputation: 123

Answers

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Start your query with a question mark. As soon as you type it, omnibar will enter 'search mode' and will stop interpreting queries as URLs.

There's also a keyboard shortcut to do this: Ctrl+K.

gronostaj

Posted 2017-04-25T17:18:15.630

Reputation: 33 047

this is very helpful. Is there also a way turn off the above described behavior all together? If not, I will mark your answer as accepted =) – Dahlai – 2017-04-25T17:29:43.207

I'm not aware of such option, but maybe someone else will come up with a solution. – gronostaj – 2017-04-25T19:33:35.387

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