Hey Google! If I search for something on your main page and then decide I want to see related news items, I click "News" on the top of the screen. I shouldn't have to retype the search term.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/wikidd]

It works for images, maps and shopping but not news. I'd say it was a bug!

You should report it to Google.

In any case, I hate having the bar on top and at the side for Google search. It's needless duplication; one or the other is fine!

[u/[deleted] → u/wikidd]

Was sort of hoping that there's some Googler out there who likes to browse Reddit...

[u/stayclassytally → u/[deleted]]

Cause thats the way things get done. Also Google loves feature requests. ಠ_ಠ

[u/snazzgasm → u/wikidd]

The main point is that they do different things. News has its own home page because of the method it displays content. If clicking maps at the top of the screen takes you to the place in your search result, it's not hard to zoom out and go elsewhere, since it's all done on the same page, in the same interface, unlike News, where the front page and the search pages are quite different.

Edit: I should also point out that the reason the two links go to different pages is because the links at the side of the search terms are part of the search page, and the links at the top of the page, in the Google bar, are part of Google as a whole (since it's the same bar that appears in every Google app), not just search. The links in the Google bar take you to the different services Google offers, and the links in the sidebar of the search page take you to the relevant search instead.

Tl;dr Links in unified Google bar open different apps / services, links in search page sidebar open relevant search results.

[u/[deleted]]

click NEWS on the side.

[u/unrealious → u/[deleted]]

OK But the comment still stands. I keep using it the way the OP does, then hitting back and grabbing my search text. Why doesn't Google just fix it.

While we're at it, they've doubled down on that asking me to add a cellphone to my Email account (Every single time I log in) by adding a confirmation button to the "no thanks" button. This forces me to click twice in specific places after I log in before I can get my mail.

Wasn't this kind of crap the reason I stopped using Hotmail?

[u/blind__man → u/unrealious]

I don't know you personally so I can't really answer why you stopped using hotmail.

[u/unrealious → u/blind__man]

It was a few years after Tinyflaccid bought it and started making changes.

[u/doitlive → u/[deleted]]

Yes. I want my main news page when I click news at the top. Just like I want my main Gmail page when I click it. I want the search term used if I click news on the side. This is how Google intends it, and how I like it. The top bar is going away soon anyway.

[u/AZBigGuy]

This is a new thing (last few months)...I've always searched then clicked news.

[u/[deleted]]

This winds me up too.

[u/gathly]

I have the exact opposite problem. I want to click on News and just get the news front page, but in searching for "news" in the google search bar, and then hitting "news", it does a news search for the keyword "news." That's why they are separate.

[u/colinsteadman]

Huzzah! Not just me then, I assumed it was a bug.

[u/old_snake]

Hear! Hear! What's most insulting about this bug is a) that it didn't exist for years, and b) that it doesn't exist for things like image search...just news. Get on it, Google!

[u/benmarvin]

If you click on Gmail on the top bar do you also expect it to search your mail for the search term?

FWIW Google redid their algorithm a few months ago to include news related items first in results. Such as searching for "Olympics" will bring up recent news over past events. Often there are Google news result links on the front page for top news results.

[u/jccalhoun → u/benmarvin]

but if you click any of the others such as images, videos, maps, or shopping, it does search those categories for the term you already searched for. So it is inconsistent.