Comments on: Redirecting Using Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky http://www.dotcult.com/redirecting-using-googles-im-feeling-lucky Ryan Jones Blogs About Internet Culture, Marketing, SEO, & Social Media Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:09:08 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mono http://www.dotcult.com/redirecting-using-googles-im-feeling-lucky/comment-page-1#comment-3548 Mono Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:59:06 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/redirecting-using-googles-im-feeling-lucky#comment-3548 I noticed a similar technique while editing settings for my browser, Maxthon. Clicking on the real google ifl button teaches you this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=[QUERY]&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky It seems that the param btnI simply needs to be in the URL, but doesnt need an = or value. I have noticed a problem though...the query cannot contain numbers. For instance, if I set q=email, it forwards me to yahoo. However if I set q=email2, it shows search results. This happens reagrdless of position or value of btnI... ...have any solutions or should I keep working? I noticed a similar technique while editing settings for my browser, Maxthon. Clicking on the real google ifl button teaches you this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=QUERY&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky
It seems that the param btnI simply needs to be in the URL, but doesnt need an = or value. I have noticed a problem though…the query cannot contain numbers.

For instance, if I set q=email, it forwards me to yahoo. However if I set q=email2, it shows search results. This happens reagrdless of position or value of btnI…

…have any solutions or should I keep working?

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