I'm feeling lucky

[brainpanhandler]

Perhaps since I'm not feeling so lucky these days the "I'm feeling lucky" google button caught my eye this morning. I decided to enter the search terms I'm feeling lucky and then use the "I'm feeling lucky" button to search those terms. That returned this: http://www.google.com/help/features.html which isn't very interesting. Then I searched the same terms with a regular google search and discovered this going on:

Google has sparked mystery by launching an unexplained countdown that only appears when users press the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on the search engine's homepage.

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Simple calculations indicate that the number will fall to zero in 17 days – around the turn of the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/g ... clock.html

[compared2what?]

Thanks, bph! I'd never have known without you, I never press that button. At first that was because to me, it has unfortunate connotations. But by now, it's because I just don't even really see it anymore.

I still don't understand what its advantageous features are supposed to be, though. Or even what it does. Apart from summon forth one of the gazillions of rote internal call-and-response-chant reactions having their origins in popular culture that run through my mind on a near-constant basis, making it unnecessary -- as well as probably inadvisable -- for me ever to listen to the radio or watch television again. When it catches my attention, I mean.

[IanEye]

I'm lucky - eye'm Lucky - I'm lucky


eye can walk under ladders

and the world loves a winner...
.

[Maddy]

Thanks, bph! I'd never have known without you, I never press that button. At first that was because to me, it has unfortunate connotations.

I always think of this.