Clicking that button will take students to a randomly-selected place in the world. One of those neat features is the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button that is found on the left hand toolbar in Google Earth. Actually, Tom Chavez of “Rapt” did the math and concluded that this button costs Google over $100 million a year as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising.From voyages to games to simple measuring tools, the web version of Google Earth has a lot of neat features that can help students learn about the world. Go on ahead, try it!Īs a parting note, would you believe me if I told you that little seemingly inconsequential button costs Google more than US$100 million every year in foregone profits? Surprising as it may seem, it’s actually an odd little fact. and each of these will take you on a journey of discovery in Google world. However, if you’re searching on and Google Instant is turned on, hovering over the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google homepage will cause the button to spin and land on a phrase that starts with “I’m Feeling…” You will get options such as “I’m feeling hungry”, “I’m feeling stellar”, etc. If Google Instant is turned off, the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button behaves as above, taking you to the Google Doodles gallery.
IM FEELING LUCKY HOW TO
You can find instructions on how to turn Google Instant on or off on this Google help page. Google Instant is a feature of Google Search that automatically shows results for a popular search that begins with the letters you are typing. The second issue that affects the behaviour of the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button is whether Google Instant is on or off. Alternatively, you can force Google to stay at by simply typing /ncr where ncr stands for “no country recognition”. You can switch to by clicking the relevant link at the bottom left of the Google home page.
IM FEELING LUCKY UPDATE
Google regularly releases updates and search features primarily to the American markets and you can only access the update or feature via. By the way, you may not always want to have your search results customised based on location. If you’re using a Google domain other than, clicking the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button with no search term in the search bar will take you to the Google Doodles gallery. So, for example, if you are in Zimbabwe your search results are handled through .zw to provide you with results that are most relevant in Zimbabwe. You may already know that Google is big on offering you customised and relevant results, and one of the ways Google does that is by customizing Search for a number of countries and regions across the world. Let’s start with the issue of the domain and see how it affects your “lucky-ness”. The button’s behaviour changes based on your settings and what Google domain you’re using. Now, the button has slowly evolved over time and its behaviour is no longer as clear cut. The idea behind the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button was that if you were lucky (as if there’s any luck in the search results rankings), the search engine would return the perfect match for you without you having to wade through a sea of irrelevant results on the results page. You would then have to sift through the results to find the relevant one you were looking for.
Normally, when you search for anything on Google, the results page appears with n search results ranked according to Google’s PageRank algorithms. Initially, when a user typed a search result and clicked the button it would take them directly to the first search result. But fret not gentle reader, I once was lost like you, but now I’m found and know exactly what that conspicuous button does.Īccording to Google’s support page, the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button offers you a way to explore the web and find new sites. It’s a shame really, particularly considering that if you’re anything like me you probably use Google Search on a daily basis. By most guesses you probably have no idea what that Google button that says “I’m feeling lucky” does.
0 kommentar(er)
