Since Instant, it had become really useless. As soon as you start typing it disappears.

> But I'm all for removing the 'I'm feeling lucky' button. Did anyone ever use that?

I don't use the homepage, but I do have a custom search set up in my browser for "I'm Feeling Lucky". It's useful when:

a) I'm reasonably sure what result will come first. For instance, if I want information about a movie I'll type `l imdb tron legacy` (l being the Feeling Lucky search prefix).

b) I want to visit company's website, but I'm not sure of their real domain. I hate landing on domain spam so if I think the company is popular enough to get the first result I'll use Lucky. Example: If I wasn't a user a Dropbox and wasn't sure they had 'dropbox.com' (and they didn't at first, getdropbox.com was the original domain) I would do `l dropbox`.

Also worth mentioning for my specific case is the fact that I don't like Instant or Suggestions and keep them disabled.

I do sometimes, if there's a site or a page that I've been to before, but can't remember the URL, but know that, for my search term, it will be the first result. A quick "tab, tab, space" takes me to that top result, nice and easily.

I use feeling lucky frequently with custom searches in the adressbar, especially for searching wikipedia and jumping to the first article.