Possible to have URLs suggested in the search box?

Brave Search
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When I search say “BBC News”

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The results look like this - is there any way to have it show URLs I can do directly to without having to go to the search page first? Perhaps an I’m Feeling Lucky feature?

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I think it depends on the Search terms you enter. On my end, if I enter only bbc, I see the following sites suggested:

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But if I type in bbc News as you did, I see search suggestions. I can reach out to the Search team but why this is the case.

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Yes please thanks! very much

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@Gigabit,
Can you confirm that you have the Auto-complete searches and URLs option toggled “on” in Settings --> Privacy/Security?

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Sorry for the delay. Yes, it is turned on.

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Thank you for the information. Reaching out to search team now for more information. Appreciate your patience.

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Has there been any update @Mattches

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While I haven’t had a direct response — what I’m seeing is that in order to jump straight to the website, you’ll need to have visited it before. For example, using BBC News still, I got the same results as you did on a fresh profile using Brave search as default.

However, once I went to BBC News the first time, the next time I searched for it, I was able to select and jump straight to the site:

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I believe this is the expected behavior