Why does Google still have the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?

For "Real Life", there is a youtube video immediately at the top of the results, above ads and featured snippets. This youtube video is what is shown by clicking, "I'm Feeling Lucky." Despite this, the first result was only shown on my desktop when I hit pagedown twice and looked at the very bottom of the page.

However, the result that is returned by "I'm Feeling Lucky" for "Is there a god" is actually the first result and not any of the special content at the top. But in this case, there is no youtube video in the listings.

(Using a plain ! anywhere in your query seems to do the same thing as \)

0: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/sp9e5r/backslas...

And, the credibility was gone.

Serious question, if the article had only made the first two casual accusations, but omitted the third,would you have still thought it lacked credibility?

Side note, accusing someone of white supremacy is subtly different from, and to my ears less strident than outright calling them a white supremacist. If I am a jaywalker, it could mean that I've committed one, a few, or many acts of jaywalking, even without my knowledge. It's a mere statement of fact. But if I were a "jaywalkist," if such a term existed, it would more likely mean that I have a personal philosophy that Jaywalking Is Good, or at least, that I was a blatant and habitual practitioner of transgressive traversals. It says something about my essential character in the eyes of my accuser.

PM: About 0.2% of searches

Exec: So basically 1%

Edit: 3.66 billion in 2007, so yeah, doesn’t add up.

The only truthful answer is "all of the above".

But, I suspect Google's fate is the same as IBM.

It fades into obsolesce within a generation. It's already happening. The tell-tale sign is that its search product is becoming absolutely useless as every search category follows the same pattern as the recipe problem (have you googled error messages recently? If even stack trace search results are dominated by useless ad spam, you're done...). It used to be that search was the sacred cow of Google. You could inject a few very obvious and low-screen-real-estate ads into search, but that was it. All sorts of shady shit happened in every other product category, the company shut down services left and right, etc. etc. But search -- search was sacred. Take a reasonable profit, and no more. That mentality is apparently gone.

Our children will think of Google like we think of IBM. They'll remember a company that invented the search engine, as well as the "just save everything and then search for stuff" mode of work. The core innovation was an enormously useful and a powerful augmentation to human intelligence, but in the end the innovation factory was burned to the ground by smart people yielding spreadsheets.

Youtube, aquisition. Android, aquisition. Workspaces, aquisition. DoubleClick, aquisition. Waze, aquisition.

Feels like it has been roughly a decade since Google changed the world.

I wouldn't miss I'm Feeling Lucky if they bin it. What I do miss is the option to show "forum results only". Google removed the option a few years ago. They don't want people going to forums, presumably they can't follow and scrutinize your activity. How dare you login to a service untrackable by the company that changed the world!

There are a lot of companies that have built things which have changed the world. Some of them in worse.

This conveniently implies that nothing should or can be done about Google’s known, current abuses. After all, in the grand arc of time, who’s to say they won’t have had a positive impact by someone’s reckoning?

Help fix the search results maybe..

So at the moment, for search engine supremacy, you have MS & Google going head to head using different methods to track people online.

I'm surprised Apple doesnt do their own search engine for their products, its really not that hard to do imo!