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Re:What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with th... by Zakuzaa on Friday July 29, 2011 @07:08AM (#2821186)
With 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 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 JoachimSchipper on Friday July 29, 2011 @08:23AM (#2821376)
Perhaps Instant doesn't support every browser? (In particular, it requires Javascript...)
Re:What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with th... by dmc on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:28PM (#2822600)
There's a quick bit of discussion about this already here on HN[1]

1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2819709

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.
Re:What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with th... by svigraham on Friday July 29, 2011 @03:28PM (#2823407)
is it? I tried. But, it still renders results.
Re:What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with th... by mbrzuzy on Friday July 29, 2011 @11:05AM (#2822156)
Google might have kept it for nostalgia/fun.
Re:What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with th... by dadads on Friday July 29, 2011 @01:47AM (#2820395)
Because sometimes I like to be surprised