The button on the home page in practically pointless.
What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
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Re: What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
#2Because sometimes I like to be surprised
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#3Because big top keywords are proper direct matches. Search for 'putty', and bam, you are there without having to click the first entry. Same with most software.
Re: What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
#4With instant search that button is practically unusable because it disappears as soon as you type anything in the search box.
It's currently redirecting to http://www.google.com/logos/
So, yeah.. pointless.
Is Google being superstitious here?
Re: What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
#5With instant search that button is practically unusable because it disappears as soon as you type anything in the search box. It's currently redirecting to http://www.google.com/logos/ So, yeah.. pointless. Is Google being superstitious here?
Perhaps Instant doesn't support every browser? (In particular, it requires Javascript...)
Re: What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
#6Google might have kept it for nostalgia/fun.
Re: What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
#7There's a quick bit of discussion about this already here on HN[1]
Re: What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
#8There's a quick bit of discussion about this already here on HN[1] 1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2819709
Yeah, that is interesting. Abt the same time :). Reminds of the Malcolm Gladwell cartoon of people thinking the same thing while walking down the road.
Re: What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
#9Because big top keywords are proper direct matches. Search for 'putty', and bam, you are there without having to click the first entry. Same with most software.
is it? I tried. But, it still renders results.
Re: What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?
#10With instant search that button is practically unusable because it disappears as soon as you type anything in the search box. It's currently redirecting to http://www.google.com/logos/ So, yeah.. pointless. Is Google being superstitious here?
The button is pointless, but the feature isn't.
Whenever I type something into the search box and see that the result I was looking for is the first one in the auto-suggest (and on the results page), I just have to hit the right-arrow key and use the "I'm feeling lucky" feature to go there directly.