{"id":2691,"date":"2025-05-15T06:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2025-05-15T06:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:29:14","slug":"googles-iconic-feeling-lucky-button-is-under-threat-from-you-know-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/2691","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s iconic \u2018feeling lucky\u2019 button is under threat from you-know-what"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Google\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Feeling Lucky\u201d button has been a familiar part of its homepage since the launch of the search engine 27 years ago, but the company could be about to ditch it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The web giant is currently testing with select users how to integrate its AI chatbot into its homepage. One option is to replace the \u201clucky\u201d button with one that reads \u201cAI Mode.\u201d Selecting AI Mode leads to a more conversational interaction regarding your search, eliminating the need to sift through a long list of search results. Google announced the featureearlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s just remind ourselves about what the I\u2019m Feeling Lucky button does, as there\u2019s a chance that you rarely, if ever, use it. In a nutshell, it bypasses the results on desktop search, taking you directly to the webpage that most closely matches your query. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s not much data on how many people ever hit the \u201clucky\u201d button, though back in 2007, former Google executive Marissa Mayer estimated that 1% of all Google searches went through it. But with more people searching on mobile (where the button is absent) or performing searches via the address box on desktop, it\u2019s likely that even fewer people select the button these days.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google is also considering putting the AI Mode tab at the right end of the search box, which, if fully implemented, would allow the lucky button to live another day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s not the first time that the lucky button has come under threat. In 2010, the company launched Google Instant, a feature that displayed search results in real time as users typed their queries, with the aim of making searches faster and more intuitive. While the button remained in place, it was covered by the results that cascaded over it as the user typed. Google ditched Instant in 2017, with the \u2018lucky\u2019 button once again clearly visible for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, however, the threat seems more serious. Can Google\u2019s I\u2019m Feeling Lucky button survive the ever-expanding tentacles of AI? Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Feeling Lucky\u201d button has been a familiar part of its homepage since the launch of the search engine 27 years ago, but the company could be about to ditch it. The web giant is currently testing with select users how to integrate its AI chatbot into its homepage. One option is to replace … Continue reading “Google\u2019s iconic \u2018feeling lucky\u2019 button is under threat from you-know-what”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}