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by meltyness 526 days ago
I was wondering why Google hadn't replaced 'I'm Feeling Lucky' with something to do with LLMs, or just added an LLM-generate option. I came to the conclusion that they're in corporate denialism over the whole thing. They'd be happier if their finger slipped and made Anthropic and OpenAI vanish until they could resurface and capture the market. Possibly not a great strategy.

It seems all of their years of letting the open web decay and vanish has caught up with the fact that many requests can be serviced with an inverse thesaurus manual snippet soup.
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extraduder_ire 525 days ago
The "I'm feeling lucky" button has been obsolete for over a decade, with the introduction of search-as-you-type on google.com. Clicking on it still takes you to a random google thing, usually doodles.

It's a branding thing at this point. If it still worked, it'd be interesting to know if what they consider the highest ranked result is the topmost placed ad or the first result that's not an ad.

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meltyness 525 days ago
It still works, you can click on something non-focusable like the background or hit Esc and still get the "first page" thing. Like a touch interface.

Funny that's already so intuitive for how touch interfaces works, I guess it would take maybe a week to change but forever to decide what specifically precisely should be done, so if it's not something epoch-defining, world-changing and comparable to search itself, then maybe just leave it, lest you make a mistake that half the customers likes.

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