Google kills my "lucky" button
People have been speculating for a while that Google would get rid of the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on its main search interface. About 1 percent of Google searches reportedly employ the button, which takes you straight to the top search result and which helped Google establish its reputation as a laser-accurate information retriever in the late 1990s. But when Web users go directly to the page they want, Google misses a chance to display the ads that go with its search results.
Now the company seems to be at least experimenting with an even more stripped-down page than the famously minimal Google marquee. It lacks any buttons. My Google page today says "Press Enter to Search" under the search field, and that's it. Is this what everybody is seeing today? Is anybody still seeing "I'm Feeling Lucky"?
UPDATE: At least some foreign language Google versions still have the "lucky" option.
Including the Pig Latin UI. "I'mway Eelingfay Uckylay"
Comments
jay hancock & feeling lucky brought me right to http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/hancock/blog/
maybe you need to restart your OS or at least google
Posted by: MrRational | November 1, 2009 9:10 PM
The lucky button shows randomly... sometimes it is there and sometimes it's not
Posted by: Dustin | November 2, 2009 11:35 PM
This is really stupid. Keep it how it was, this is how good companies start losing customers, they can't just leave well enough alone and gotta start tinkering with stuff. I use the enter key a lot already but I do also click the search button too a lot when I've pasted something and I'm primary using my mouse. I'll probably go back to using yahoo search now.
Posted by: David | November 3, 2009 6:14 PM
Jay, same thing for me, but not everywhere - just on my work PC, and only in IE. At home, all my IE browsers show the buttons.
Posted by: Al | November 18, 2009 3:36 PM