How to make Chrome recognize one word queries as a search not a url

Your DNS is taking that word and telling Chrome that its a website. So Chrome asks you if you meant to visit it. Chances are, if you did visit that site, you'd end up on your ISP's not found page.

The only way I've found to rectify this is turning off the "web service" option in the options and changing your DNS to Google's public DNS

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

This seems to be an issue with your ISP. However, if you prefix your searches with a question mark, like ?google.com, the question mark is telling Chrome always do a search. So in that example we will end up Googling google.com rather than going to it.

I think the best you can do is just prefix it with a ? character.

If you put the word by itself and press enter: wibble then it will do a search for the word wibble.

To connect to a server named wibble put a slash at the end of the word. For example: wibble/

This will attempt to connect to http://wibble/