Re:What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with th...
by addandsubtract on Saturday July 30, 2011 @06:49AM
(#2825477)
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.
Re:What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with th...
by svigraham on Friday July 29, 2011 @03:26PM
(#2823397)
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 th...
by adamzochowski on Friday July 29, 2011 @05:56AM
(#2821001)
Because 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.
It's currently redirecting to http://www.google.com/logos/
So, yeah.. pointless.
Is Google being superstitious here?
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.
1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2819709