It's been ages since I used Chrome regularly (there are other things about it that made it frustrating for me to use), but I had enough different places to go internally that that wouldn't have helped enough quickly enough.

Personally, I don't want autosearch to happen anyway. If I typo something, I'd rather it tell me that than waste time trying to tell me what I meant, and I have keyword search engines set up for when I do want to search.