Search results not carrying over to Google News when you click the black header tab is something that drove me crazy for a good week until I trained myself to use the left-side menu for switching between result types.
It doesn't make sense, particularly when "News" is the ONLY tab which doesn't carry the search terms over. Try it with Images, YouTube and Maps; wonderful. I wouldn't necessarily expect convention to follow with Gmail or Documents, sure, but NEWS? Come on!
The missing + on Chrome made me think I had a screwy update.
> The missing + on Chrome made me think I had a screwy update.
I thought the same. Now that I know it was intentional, it actually kind of bothers me. Seems like something is missing. Fortunately, shortcuts mean I almost never have to look up there :)
News is the only property in the list (with Google+) that has a useful homepage and no link back to the homepage from its search result pages (see https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=hello+world), which means it would very frustrating to carry queries for users who click this navigation links to go to Google News homepage. For all other products, either the homepage is useless (Images, Videos) or there's a link to the product homepage at the top of the page (in Maps, you remove results / go to Maps homepage via the maps' top-right menu).
NB: few months ago, results were carried for Docs, Gmail and Calendar. So I assume they measured the % of users who landed on the search results page for each products and directly clicked the Google logo to go the product homepage (as they expected). In the end, Google preferred to satisfy the X million users who didn't expect product A to show results for their previous query to the Y million others who did. Now, would you favor 5 very angry users or 1 million lightly confused users?
It doesn't make sense, particularly when "News" is the ONLY tab which doesn't carry the search terms over. Try it with Images, YouTube and Maps; wonderful. I wouldn't necessarily expect convention to follow with Gmail or Documents, sure, but NEWS? Come on!
The missing + on Chrome made me think I had a screwy update.