I'm Feeling Lucky Button, What Is It and How Do I Use It?

One of the most notable objects on the Google Web search is the I'm Feeling Lucky button.

The button may have been named as a play on the Clint Eastwood line in the movie Dirty Harry .

"Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do you?"

Ordinarily when you type in a keyphrase in a Google search, you press the search button, (you can also just press return or enter on your keyboard) and Google returns a results page that shows multiple Web sites matching your search phrase. TheI'm Feeling Lucky button skips thesearch results page and goes directly to the first ranked page for that search phrase.

If you type "white house" in the search box and press I'm Feeling Lucky, you'll go straight to www.whitehouse.gov . If you type"apple" into the search box and press I'm Feeling Lucky, you'll go directly to Apple Computer's Web site. Depending on your search query, the first result is usually the very best guess, so hitting the I'm Feeling Lucky button saves you a few extra seconds parsing through the list of searchresults.

I'm Feeling Lucky is handy if you'refairly confident that the first result in the search engine is going to be exactly the page youwant to find, but not so handy if you know you're going to be looking at a lot of sites. Using theI'm Feeling Lucky button is also a common way for people to point out Google bombs. It adds an element of surprise to the joke, but it only works if the Google Bomb is the very first result.