<p>Possibly people are mis-reading <a href="https://github.com/SarahTehCat" class="user-mention">@SarahTehCat</a>'s description? It's not about a "search with no query string". The OP describes it as a feature where the query string is filled in from user text in the location bar, in a similar way as <a href="https://github.com/malenki" class="user-mention">@malenki</a>'s description. I'm not familiar with the functionality so I don't know if it's exactly the same.</p>

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