Google search box disappearing in Chrome

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I'm a real novice so please excuse my dumb question. I use chrome as my browser and I have Google as my search engine. Lately, when I try to enter a word into the Google search box, the first letter I type in makes the box disappear. Poof... it's gone! Can anyone tell me how to stop this? Thanks.
 

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How strange!

Where do you type in to the search box, is it in the address bar at the top of the browser - or on the central search box on the Google homepage? They both work in different ways, so I just want to clarify this first :).
 
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I type in the central search box. I have attached a picture of what the page looks like before I try to type in anything. The box I use is the one under the word "GOOGLE". Typing in the first letter makes that search box disappear. Thanks for your reply.
 

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Look at the address bar at the top of the page. As soon as you start typing in the search box, everything relocates to the address bar.
 

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Look at the address bar at the top of the page. As soon as you start typing in the search box, everything relocates to the address bar.

Yep, I think that's what's happening here :).

If you want to avoid this from happening, you can bookmark https://www.google.com as your homepage - as their website behaves as you'd expect, but your screenshot shows the Chrome default homepage which looks similar but behaves slightly differently.
 

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