What is the use for 2 search bars?

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Yahoo

News, email and search are just the beginning. Discover more every day. Find your yodel.

So just as a test, I enabled network logging and tried 2 tests. In the unified URL bar, I typed a search term. In the network stack, I can see it sent the first network message directly to google.com with the properly formatted search terms. For the second one, I just entered yahoo.com. In this case, I can see the first network request is sent directly to yahoo.com. I also checked all of the network traffic in that entire request and there was nothing sent to Google.

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Google Landing Page

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Google

Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web

So just as a test, I enabled network logging and tried 2 tests. In the unified URL bar, I typed a search term. In the network stack, I can see it sent the first network message directly to google.com with the properly formatted search terms. For the second one, I just entered yahoo.com. In this case, I can see the first network request is sent directly to yahoo.com. I also checked all of the network traffic in that entire request and there was nothing sent to Google.

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Mycroft Project Landing Page

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Mycroft Project

The Mycroft Project provides a collection of OpenSearch and Sherlock Search Engine Plugins / Search Providers for Firefox, IE and Chrome.

I agree. Search bar, rocks! I like to keep my searches separate and isolated from google or whoever else is snooping. I've added in specific search engines from the Mycroft Project to the search bar to do just that.

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