Chrome displays Answers to Some Queries directly in the Omnibox

Omnibox, combination of the address bar and search box is turning to be more useful for Chrome users, Chromium team is currently testing showing answers to certain type of queries right in the Omnibox without pressing the enter button on the keyboard.

You can try this in dev. or canary by enabling Answers in Suggest flag, which, when enabled, ‘responses to certain types of queries will appear directly in the Omnibox suggestion list‘. Try yourself for knowing the capital of a country or to weather in a city.

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Some answers in suggest results have an associated icon, for example the weather may show a sunny or cloudy-skies image.

This change will download the associated icon and display it in the answer suggested.

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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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