Direct navigation through browser address bar

A computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more computer-readable media storing instructions which, responsive to execution by the one or more processors, implement a web browser capable of performing operations including:
• receiving, by the web browser, user input in the form of text;
• presenting, by the web browser, at least one search suggestion relating to the user input capable of replacing the text of the user input;
• responsive to selection of the search suggestion, associating, by the web browser, the text with a search and communicating the text to a search provider;
• responsive to no selection of the search suggestion, processing, by the web browser, the text to ascertain whether the text is associated with a search or a navigation;
• responsive to the text being associated with a search or a navigation, communicating, by the web browser, the text to a search provider along with an indication of whether the text appears, respectively, to be associated with a search or a navigation;
• and
• responsive to the text being associated with a navigation;
• selecting, by the web browser, a navigation URL that is configured to provide the text and the indication to the search provider, the indication indicating that the text is a subject of an attempted navigation to a site associated with a web address;
• and
• automatically navigating, by the web browser, to the site associated with the web address.

A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:

• receiving, with a web browser, user input in the form of text;
• based upon a format of the user input, selecting, by the web browser, from among at least two different URLs, a first of the URLs being configured to enable a search provider to cause a redirection of the web browser to a web address associated with the user input based at least in part on an indication that the text is the subject of an attempted navigation to the web address, a second of the URLs being configured to enable the search provider to return, to the web browser a search results page associated with the user input based at least in part on an indication that the text is the subject of an attempted search;
• automatically navigating, by the web browser, to the web address responsive to selecting the first of the URLs:
• and
• presenting, with the web browser, a web page associated with the selected URL.