Comment by bambax | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bambax | Hacker News Reader

Not directly related (but not totally unrelated), try to search for "PDF/A" in the "ominous bar" => error.

What you're looking for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

What you get:

This webpage is not available. The webpage at http://pdf/a might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

The reason for this, is probably that anything with a slash in it has to be interpreted as a url, since there is no protocol left to make the difference between a web address and a search...

Add a question mark or use Ctrl+K for a search. Both the below work.

    Ctrl+K pdf/a Enter
    Ctrl+L ?pdf/a Enter

I'm sure I'll remember that the next time I need to search on a phrase containing a slash.

That seems like a pretty easy fix. Just ensure that you have a .something somewhere in the address, before the first slash.

Sorry, but at least http://localhost/ disagrees. Also, remember about hosts file and NetBIOS names.

Maybe my post wasn't completely clear: I want to search for PDF/A, and actually the expected result is the Google result page for this search, ie:

http://www.google.fr/search?q=pdf/a

What I get instead is an error because Chrome tries to access the non-existent web page http://PDF/a

Sorry, no, it was my post that wasn't clear. That should be easy behaviour for Google to code for. The current implementation seems buggy; at least the fix wouldn't be difficult.

Yep, this has happened to me. Sometimes I miss my separate search bar.

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