We have tweaked the solution slightly thanks to a comment from Chrome team member Peter Kasting. Update: Thanks to Brian Glasshouse for providing the following tip (which is also on Hacker News) via Google+. A Google spokesperson has confirmed that the company is looking into the issue Ĭhrome overtook Internet Explorer to become the Web’s most used browser last month, according to Statcounter, and Google recently revealed that Chrome is now serving 310 million active users, after doubling that figure over the last year. We’ve reached out to Google for clarification of what’s happening. While a comment on Hacker News suggests clearing the browser search history. Is it just me or searching through omnibar on Google Chrome is broken? I am being redirected to a blank page for all searches.Īs a quick fix, the problem can be circumvented by switching off instant results, which can be done by visiting the option panels here. I looked up blank.html and I’m at home on my own network so it shouldn’t be any sort of corporate/public Wi-Fi redirect.Ĭomments on Twitter show that the issue is affecting other users and, worryingly for the search giant, some have been seeing problems for a number of hours, while TNW staffers have been having problems for most of the day (US time):Īnyone else seeing odd blank.html pages showing up in google results path when you search in Chrome?Īnyone else having issues doing a Google search from the top bar in Chrome? I’m being sent to a blank page, like this, about 50% of the time within the last 20 minutes of searching: Using latest version of Google Chrome on Windows 7 PC.

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