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I remember the first time my mother used Google. She saw the "I'm feeling lucky" button, thought it was an ad for online gambling, and became upset that I was d
by hughes 14y ago
I remember the first time my mother used Google. She saw the "I'm feeling lucky" button, thought it was an ad for online gambling, and became upset that I was directing her to use such a tool.
I really wouldn't miss it if they got rid of it entirely.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoIt's hard to spoil superior technology with just single extra button.
- jasomill 14y agoWhile I never use the button, the underlying functionality is incredibly useful for special-purpose search shortcuts to things like reference documentation where the top result for a specific key word or phrase is very likely to be the one you're looking for. The example I use dozens of times a day is "universal context-sensitive help": for instance, I have Alfred.app set up with a shortcut mapping "msl SOMETHING" to the the "I'm feeling lucky" result for "site:msdn.microsoft.com SOMETHING", so, e.g., "msl CreateFile" will, with very high probability, take me to the reference page for the Win32 CreateFile function, and — here's the important bit — I can set up similar shortcuts for any documentation site in about a minute.
- rabidsnail 14y ago(javadoc) does this in lein repl, but lately I've been seeing results pages instead.
- archangel_one 14y agoOne case I found at my last job where the interstitial Google search result saved the day was when searching for the MFC class CString. As it turns out, the most popular thing out there called a CString has nothing at all to do with programming, and if I'd done an "I'm feeling lucky" on it, well, no doubt my boss would have walked past at just the wrong moment...
- whatusername 14y agoif a site:msdn.microsoft.com search comes back with the other type of cstring results then something has gone very wrong over at Redmond.
- archangel_one 14y agoClearly, but I didn't used to bother with typing that since it's twice as long as my actual query and most of the time it was the top result anyway.
- gee_totes 14y agoAs a DDG fanboy, I must ask if you've tried the !msdn bang shortcut on DuckDuckGo.com
- ams6110 14y agoI have never once clicked "I'm feeling lucky"