[ZeagleFiend]

I don't think that the new design 'emphasises' the search button at all. It slots it neatly onto the end of the search bar rather than hanging it below the bar. It's smaller and more pleasing to the eye.

But I'm all for removing the 'I'm feeling lucky' button. Did anyone ever use that?

[tonfa]

Since Instant, it had become really useless. As soon as you start typing it disappears.

[unfasten]

> But I'm all for removing the 'I'm feeling lucky' button. Did anyone ever use that?

I don't use the homepage, but I do have a custom search set up in my browser for "I'm Feeling Lucky". It's useful when:

a) I'm reasonably sure what result will come first. For instance, if I want information about a movie I'll type `l imdb tron legacy` (l being the Feeling Lucky search prefix).

b) I want to visit company's website, but I'm not sure of their real domain. I hate landing on domain spam so if I think the company is popular enough to get the first result I'll use Lucky. Example: If I wasn't a user a Dropbox and wasn't sure they had 'dropbox.com' (and they didn't at first, getdropbox.com was the original domain) I would do `l dropbox`.

Also worth mentioning for my specific case is the fact that I don't like Instant or Suggestions and keep them disabled.

[corin_]

I do sometimes, if there's a site or a page that I've been to before, but can't remember the URL, but know that, for my search term, it will be the first result. A quick "tab, tab, space" takes me to that top result, nice and easily.

[litek]

I use feeling lucky frequently with custom searches in the adressbar, especially for searching wikipedia and jumping to the first article.