>Yes, I see that too. AFAIK that's been standard behaviour for a long time in Chrome. Basically Google is reminding you that you can search from there and not waste Google's resources loading up its search page first.
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>The idea of searching from the address/URL bar when non-URL terms are entered has been around for a while. I can't recall if it was Firefox or Chrome which did it first.

This only happens when the browser is loaded. After that, if I navigate to a page and go back to google.com, I can type in the search field. Also, I wouldn't understand the logic behind this to show a form where we cannot type in it.

Thanks