Chrome URL search uses /taxa/search rather than /search

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In Chrome, when I type inaturalist.org then a space, it searches inaturalist.org/taxa instead of via the main search.

For example, if I want to use the Chrome URL to search for CNC related things on iNat,
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it searches:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/search?utf8=✓&q=city+nature+challenge

instead of https://www.inaturalist.org/search?q=city%20nature%20challenge

Not quite a bug per se, but definitely not working the way I expected. Is “which search Chrome uses” something you can set on your end, or are you stuck with where Chrome decides to search?

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Do we really have any choices when it comes to Google? ;-)

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First, I didn’t know about this feature in Chrome, it’s pretty cool. I’m trying to stick with Firefox and not use Google as much as possible, but Chrome is really good.

Anyhoo, I can’t replicate, I go to https://www.inaturalist.org/search?q=city+nature+challenge. I set up my inat search thusly:

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So perhaps we’ve set things up differently?

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Thanks! found that setting and changed my browser’s default search. Since this is a user-by-user chrome issue and not an iNat issue, I guess you can try “closing” this topic now?

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Very exciting.