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Why does Google still have the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?
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#23The article loses a lot of credibility when it just casually accuses Google of being white supremacists as though nobody could dispute this.
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#24DuckDuckGo still has this, but it's not in the form of a button. Instead, if you prepend a backwards slash (\) to your query, it'll take you to the first webpage in the list of results. This is done server-side, so it also works in your browser's search bar.
DuckDuckGo's !bangs[0] deserve a mention as well, where you can use an exclamation point with an (abbreviated) site name to forward your query to the site's internal search (try !hn). (Using a plain ! anywhere in your query seems to do the same thing as \) 0: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
> DuckDuckGo's !bangs[0] deserve a mention as well
Agreed. They're an awesome feature, too. I just like sharing this little trick every now and then as it's not really mentioned anywhere (I accidentally discovered it), unlike bangs which DuckDuckGo very strongly advertise.
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#27This mostly seems to funnel people to various Google things. Hover over it and you might get… - I'm Feeling Doodley: Google search for "google doodles" - I'm Feeling Puzzled: redirect to http://www.agoogleaday.com/#date=2012-02-29 - I'm Feeling Trendy: redirect to https://trends.google.com/trends/trendingsearches/daily?geo=... - I'm Feeling Artistic: redirect to https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/xwE7rgYgnWm68w…
I ran the two searches that were at the start of the article: "Real Life" and "Is there a god". When clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky" the difference in results between these two searches shows a preference towards Google's property, youtube, instead of the first result being the lucky property.
For "Real Life", there is a youtube video immediately at the top of the results, above ads and featured snippets. This youtube video is what is shown by clicking, "I'm Feeling Lucky." Despite this, the first result was only shown on my desktop when I hit pagedown twice and looked at the very bottom of the page.
However, the result that is returned by "I'm Feeling Lucky" for "Is there a god" is actually the first result and not any of the special content at the top. But in this case, there is no youtube video in the listings.
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#28It's like the last little bit of personality Google has left.
Yeah if they removed it there would definitely be commentary about how theyve changed. Plus there must be a whole team that managed that functionality, what would they do then?
Help fix the search results maybe..
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#29DuckDuckGo still has this, but it's not in the form of a button. Instead, if you prepend a backwards slash (\) to your query, it'll take you to the first webpage in the list of results. This is done server-side, so it also works in your browser's search bar.
Oh, neat! I've been using the lone `!` but it's so hard to type on mobile because I need to tap space twice before it. I'll give this a shot.
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