Google's 'I'm feeling lucky' button might soon be replaced by AI mode

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET

Even luck can't flight being replaced by AI.

Since its inception, Google Search has had an "I'm feeling lucky" fastener alongside the regular hunt button. Instead of taking you to a leafage of results for your search, the fortunate fastener takes you consecutive to the tract for the archetypal result. It was a time-saving instrumentality successful the days of slower internet, but present it's much of a playful throwback.

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Over the past respective days, users person reported that the fortunate fastener is gone. In its spot is simply a fastener for AI mode. Instead of taking you to existent hunt results, AI mode opens a chatbot that gives you accusation astir what you searched for and lets you person a speech to larn much (given its AI history, though, possibly a elemental rebrand to "I'm feeling unlucky" is much apt).

At slightest 1 exertion astatine ZDNET has seen AI Mode regenerate the "I'm feeling lucky" button, arsenic shown successful the screenshot above.

This alteration isn't unexpected

Earlier this month, Google announced that since users were uncovering it truthful helpful, it was expanding AI mode. "In the coming weeks," the institution explained, "a tiny percent of radical successful the US volition spot the AI Mode tab successful Search." Google didn't accidental wherever this fastener mightiness appear, but it's wide from idiosyncratic reports that astatine slightest 1 imaginable enactment is wherever the fortunate fastener is now.

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Fortunately, the fortunate fastener is not guaranteed to disappear. Users are besides seeing it successful a fewer different locations, including wrong the hunt bar.

While some options are astir bypassing accepted search, it's hard to ideate that galore radical really usage the fortunate fastener these days. Still, it's ever bully to spot it there. While a batch of radical are averse to Google's seeming insistence connected injecting AI into its products, you person to ideate AI mode volition astir surely spot much use.

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