See, I'm the opposite. I prefer to type my searches into the location bar. I love having that bar be both my search bar and my URL bar at the same time. Usually I'm searching for a term that involves multiple words with spaces between the words, so I can simply type the search into the location bar and up comes the google result.

What I'm saying is how I like Chrome's way of handling it so that it makes my already-ingrained behavior even more useful, making it so that I could even do the same with a single word search term.