
We took the time to check and try all the different I'm Feeling Lucky button variations and see which pages they would lead us to and came up with the list below. How to Find Old Versions of Websites All "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button Variations Also, if you are using Google as your homepage, you can try the I'm Feeling Lucky button from time to time whenever you open your web browser to see what interesting web pages Google will display for you that day. This might be a fun thing to explore, especially when you are bored online. To give an example, if you click when the button text is I'm Feeling Doodley, it will take you to a Google doodle page where you will be shown detailed information about one of the previously featured doodle images. After that, if you click the button, it will take you to a web page depending on what button text was selected before you clicked. You can move your cursor and re-hover on the button to change the selected text. So, how does the I'm Feeling Lucky button work?īasically, when you bring your mouse cursor over the I'm Feeling Lucky button on Google's homepage, the button text will start rolling and stop at a randomly selected one (see the full list below). We should say not totally unpredictable, since it follows a certain pattern for displaying pages, but still, when you click on it, you have no idea which page Google will return. The I'm Feeling Lucky button works in an unpredictable way.

How Does Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button Work

However, the I'm Feeling Lucky button is still functional, and it can be clicked before typing anything into the search box.

Since Google started displaying search results automatically as the user starts typing the search query into the search box, the Google Search button on Google homepage has become kind of obsolete because it is now impossible for a user to type a search query and then press that button. Google and the Google logo are registered trademarks of Google LLC.)

(© 2020 Google LLC, used with permission. If you visit Google at its global domain,, you will see this button to the right of the Google Search button, just below the search query box. Google has a feature that even the veteran search users might have not noticed or never really used, which is the I'm Feeling Lucky button. Though it is also known for those and many other services, Google is still most popular as a search engine and it has been the most visited website in the world and stayed in the most visited sites list for a long time now. Google is a search engine and a collection of other web tools and services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Cloud, Google Play, Google Drive and others.
