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Google upgrades the Chrome Omnibox address bar with machine learning

Google will be able to improve, re-train, and personalize the address bar easier thanks to ML.

Google is making an under-the-hood change in the latest version of Chrome that is designed to improve the suggested webpage results that appear in the address bar, also known as the Omnibox. Justin Donnelly, a Chrome engineering lead working on the Omnibox, explains in a blog post that the old scoring system could not be adapted or changed over time. "It turns out that the training data reflected a pattern where users sometimes navigate to a URL that was not what they really wanted and then immediately return to the Chrome omnibox and try again," Donnelly explains.

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