Google Starts Removing Search Box For Results Page - What Do You Think?

Looks like not everyone has it - my friends don't.

It's not necessarily bad - just unusual that the only way to change my query is in the omnibar. Will take some getting used to, but I can see why it has been removed.

I'm using the regular non-dev/canary build of chrome (v 29.0.1547.66) and just on Windows. Perhaps they are rolling it out to people slowly, anyone else got it?

I started noticing this at home the other day and I quite like it. It allows me to short-cut key directly back to the search box. It will take some getting used to, sure.

This would get annoying fast with how often Google gets it completely wrong.

How is it done? Browser sniffing? Default-search-engine sniffing?

I still have the search field in results.

They've been doing that on mobile Chrome for a while. It makes perfect sense on mobile, saving vertical space and whatnot, seems alright on the desktop as well.

Notice the mic icon to the right.