Google tweaks New Tab page on Chrome to help you search better

Google is on its way to make your search experience a lot faster and streamlined. If you use Google as your default search engine and Chrome to browse, you will now find a search bar when you open a new tab to help you search better and faster.

In a Google+ post announcing this new feature, the Google Chrome team explained how speed was one of the core tenets of Chrome and therefore the need to come up with a way to make searching faster. The streamlined New Tab page will feature a search bar right above the speed-dial of pages that you frequently visit.

Here’s how New Tab will now look like on Chrome

The good thing about this feature being rolled out is that Google has tried to reduce the amount of change for users. You will not need to compromise on the shortcut to access pages faster now. The speed search feature had been in test mode since last year, according to the Chromium blog. It was most visible in the Developer or Beta installs of Chrome. Thanks to feedback from early users, Google has managed to tweak the New Tab search feature to work better.

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Most users would wonder what the point of a search bar in the new tab is, especially since you can use Chrome’s Omnibox to search on Google directly. Google says that the goal here is to “save people time by helping them search and navigate the Web faster.”

These people are also in the minority since a huge chunk of users would simply open a new tab to type in “Google.com” in order to search for something. The search bar mimicking the Google home page on the new tab bar is sure to save a good few clicks and some time for users.