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Google and "I'm feeling lucky"
HappylilElf
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So long story short, my homepage is set to google. I find it's actually pretty handy t hit the "internet" button on my keyboard and have it open a new webpage that defaults to google.
Tonight just before heading to bed, I decided to check my e-mail. So I hit said browser button on my keyboard. I'm greeted with google as is the norm. However while waiting for the page wherein I can log into my e-mail to load, I notice a button right next to "Google Search" labeled "I'm Feeling Lucky". I click on it as I've never seen this before.
I was greeted by a page that was pretty much the same except directly under the search field it contained this-
The "I'm Feeling LuckyTM" button automatically takes you to the first web page returned for your query.
An "I'm Feeling Lucky" search means less time searching for web pages and more time looking at them.
I immediately broke into laughter upon reading that because the first thought I had was that Google has included a kind of "death safe" Russian Roulette to their search engine. I'm not sure why this truck me as hilarious, perhaps because it's so completely unnecessary. Or maybe it's because of the occasional possibilty for hilariously bad results. Or maybe it's just the fact that right next to the button for a regular search there appears teh phrase "I'm Feeling Lucky".
In any case, just thought I'd share
Tonight just before heading to bed, I decided to check my e-mail. So I hit said browser button on my keyboard. I'm greeted with google as is the norm. However while waiting for the page wherein I can log into my e-mail to load, I notice a button right next to "Google Search" labeled "I'm Feeling Lucky". I click on it as I've never seen this before.
I was greeted by a page that was pretty much the same except directly under the search field it contained this-
The "I'm Feeling LuckyTM" button automatically takes you to the first web page returned for your query.
An "I'm Feeling Lucky" search means less time searching for web pages and more time looking at them.
I immediately broke into laughter upon reading that because the first thought I had was that Google has included a kind of "death safe" Russian Roulette to their search engine. I'm not sure why this truck me as hilarious, perhaps because it's so completely unnecessary. Or maybe it's because of the occasional possibilty for hilariously bad results. Or maybe it's just the fact that right next to the button for a regular search there appears teh phrase "I'm Feeling Lucky".
In any case, just thought I'd share
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I remember lol'ing really goddamn hard about that one.
edit:ya, it was the other forum I go to and went to the site now... nothing like what it was before. Which now it seems to just redirect to google.
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/
That yes, it was there in December of 1998! I am pretty baffled that you haven't come across it in the last 8 years!
On another note, have you noticed that grass is green and the sky is mainly blue?
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Was in an article I read ages ago, so might not be correct to the letter..
I found a very neat use for it, actually: say you want to have a keyword search in firefox for some site, but its built-in search sucks - set it up so that it uses google with the "site:" addon and the "I'm feeling lucky" option and the keyword search will take you directly to the result on the target site.
To make a keyword search use I'm feeling lucky just add "&btnI=Lucky" at the end of the bookmarked address.
btw. you can also use it to make links that look like they point to google, while leading to some other site
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It is also as dangerous as the Internet.
Devious!
Public PC porn possibly? Perhaps!
It only redirects to the page, so the target address would eventually be seen by the firewall/blocking software.
I've only seen it used to trick people into goatse TBH.
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Not true at all. The built in google search in Firefox uses Im Feeling Lucky, so if you type into the URL bar 'Penny Arcade' not as a URL but just the text it will go to this site.
So nyer.
I think once typing "Hell Hole" or something like that would take you to microsoft's website.
I don't know if these are still true.
Google recently changed the algorithm and it no longer works on google. However, other search engines still have this 'flaw'.
Firefox also does this by just typing into the URL bar a non-URL and hitting enter.
French Military Victories was a good one to feel lucky about too
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html
If it were totally random result like the OP thought, that would actually be kinda fun.
Anyway, I think the far more interesting topic here is how the OP went all that time, seeing the Google page several times a day for years, without noticing the button. It's like some new form of aphasia.
It's only been useful if I've known ahead of time that the first result page that would come up after a quick search would be the one I'm looking for.
it's just usually a result of laziness on my part.
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These days it's pretty useless.