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What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?

4 points by svigraham ↗ HN
The button on the home page in practically pointless.

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dadads
Because sometimes I like to be surprised
adamzochowski
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.
svigraham
is it? I tried. But, it still renders results.
Zakuzaa
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?

JoachimSchipper
Perhaps Instant doesn't support every browser? (In particular, it requires Javascript...)
addandsubtract
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.

mbrzuzy
Google might have kept it for nostalgia/fun.
dmc
There's a quick bit of discussion about this already here on HN[1]

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

svigraham
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.