What is the point of "I am feeling lucky" button, with the redirect?

[svigraham]

The button on the home page in practically pointless.

[Zakuzaa]

With instant search that button is practically unusable because it disappears as soon as you type anything in the search box.

It's currently redirecting to http://www.google.com/logos/

So, yeah.. pointless.

Is Google being superstitious here?

[addandsubtract]

The button is pointless, but the feature isn't.

Whenever I type something into the search box and see that the result I was looking for is the first one in the auto-suggest (and on the results page), I just have to hit the right-arrow key and use the "I'm feeling lucky" feature to go there directly.

[JoachimSchipper]

Perhaps Instant doesn't support every browser? (In particular, it requires Javascript...)

[dmc]

There's a quick bit of discussion about this already here on HN[1]

1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2819709

[svigraham]

Yeah, that is interesting. Abt the same time :). Reminds of the Malcolm Gladwell cartoon of people thinking the same thing while walking down the road.

[adamzochowski]

Because big top keywords are proper direct matches. Search for 'putty', and bam, you are there without having to click the first entry. Same with most software.

[svigraham]

is it? I tried. But, it still renders results.

[mbrzuzy]

Google might have kept it for nostalgia/fun.

[dadads]

Because sometimes I like to be surprised