The button may have been named as a play on the Clint Eastwood line in
the movie Dirty Harry.
"Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do you?" Ordinarily when you type in a
key phrase in a Google search, you press the search button, (you can
also just press return or enter on your keyboard) and Google returns a
results page that shows multiple Web sites matching your search phrase.
The I'm Feeling Lucky button skips the search results page and goes
directly to the first ranked page for that search phrase.
If you type "white house" in the search box and press I'm Feeling
Lucky, you'll go straight to www.whitehouse.gov. If you type "apple"
into the search box and press I'm Feeling Lucky, you'll go directly to
Apple Computer's Web site.
I'm Feeling Lucky is handy if you're fairly confident that the first
result in the search engine is going to be exactly the page you want to
find. It saves time and clicking to just go to the page with the first
click.
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