Here's a permanent fix:

- Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings".

- Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox."

- Click Manage search engines

- Scroll all the way down. You'll see three textboxes. Fill the three textboxes in like so:

  Googol Googol http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

- Press enter, so that it adds Googol to your list of search engines. Scroll up and find it in the list, then click "Make default".

You now have a permanent way to search Google from within Chrome. Bonus: the URL is clean... there isn't any embedded tracking code or any other junk.