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Postby brainpanhandler » Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:24 am

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.

...

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
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Postby compared2what? » Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:24 pm

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.
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Postby IanEye » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:01 pm

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

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eye can walk under ladders

and the world loves a winner...
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Postby Maddy » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:19 pm

compared2what? wrote: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.


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Be kind - it costs nothing. ~ Maddy ~
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