said by dave:said by Sober:Seems like an easy code to fix.
The standard comment of those who don't have to actually fix it
Uh, but it would be really easy to "fix" it. Just carry the search term over like they do for images, youtube, etc. It's clearly intended behavior though because it hasn't worked that way for over a year, and Google isn't the kind of company that would let a bug like that go unfixed because it's too difficult to fix.
My guess is they want to push Google News as more of a portal than a search utility. If they didn't just show you the homepage when you click News from a regular search, most people would never see the homepage at all. Either that or they found that when people click News, they expect the homepage and it was confusing people when it brought them to a search result.