The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button serves more as a nostalgic feature rather than a functional one. Despite the availability of the button, its purpose had evolved over time. Google still had the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on its homepage, although it was not as prominently displayed as it used to be. Why Does Google Still Have the “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button?

I’m Feeling Stellar- Takes you to Google Earth’s explore page.

I’m Feeling Puzzled- Takes you to the A Google A Day page.

I’m Feeling Lucky- Takes you to the first result.

I’m Feeling Curious- Displays search results that contain curious information.

I’m Feeling Artistic- Takes you to Google’s Art Project page.

I’m Feeling Generous- Displays several foundations where you can help the poor.

I’m Feeling Trendy- takes you to the most trendy searches.

I’m Feeling Playful- takes you to random interactive doodle.

I’m Feeling Hungry- searches for local restaurants.

I’m Feeling Doodley- Searches for random doodles.

I’m Feeling Wonderful- Brings you to the Google World Wonders Project.For example, if you choose ‘i’m feeling hungry’, you can view the local restaurant options. You can also select a particular mood you are feeling today and you will end up getting the related results. You can spin this and play to see what your luck turns to. If you hold up your cursor over the ‘ I’m feeling lucky’ button, it spins showing other moods. But however, Google did not want to delete this feature completely therefore it was updated to show different animations such as I’m feeling puzzled, I’m feeling trendy, I’m feeling Doodley, etc. After the launch of this feature, the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ feature was discontinued. This allowed the search results to appear in the search bar as one types. Later, Google Instant was launched in 2010. This is because these searches skipped Google ads leading to a loss of revenue. In 2007, it was estimated that around 1% Google search queries that have passed through the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button cost a hefty sum of $110 million per year. This button used to cost Google millions of dollars per year.

Now the user has to type a query and click on the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ icon so that the user would be directed to the page that was listed in the top search result. Another way to access this feature in the address bar: Type backslash and press tab.You can find the ‘ I’m feeling lucky’ button only in the desktop version of Google.

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