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I want to add a bookmark keyword in Firefox for Google's I'm Feeling Lucky but the URL changes too quickly for me to copy it.

Motti
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It's http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky (from the bottom of your link), where '%s' is the search string.

Andy Mikula
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The link in @Andy Mikula's answer no longer works since Google takes you to a 'redirect confirmation' page—thus beating the purpose of using the bookmarklet.

The alternative is to change the default search engine in your browser to DuckDuckGo.com. Then use the '!' (exclamation mark) followed by space and your search term. If you need to use regular Google, you will need to visit the site and search there.

Motti
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LWTBP
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This link for example searches for "French Military Victories"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=french+military+victories&btnI=745

benrick
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  • +1 for providing the short version ("btnI=745"). But I think it is a bad example as the result is empty (it's an old joke (by Scott Hanselman?)) and does not really demonstrate that it works. If "CPU" is used instead of "french military victories" then it will open the top result (a Wikipedia article in this example). – Peter Mortensen Jan 10 '10 at 20:14
  • i also get here a forwarding note – SearchSpace Mar 22 '21 at 15:37
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If you just type your search terms into the address bar in Firefox, it will perform an 'I'm feeling lucky' search by default.
You may have issues with your ISP redirecting you to a lame 'domain not found' page, though. This is because Firefox attempts to look up the site first and only performs the search once the lookup fails. My ISP allowed me to opt out of it, so it's not a big issue.

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@LWTBP noted that @Andy Mikula's answer "no longer works since Google takes you to a 'redirect confirmation' page."

A few potential workarounds:

  • https://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=%s: an answer to a similar question on webapps.stackexchange.com suggests this URL, which works for me when combined with the Redirect Google Redirects chrome extension. I've also had success using that extension in combination with @Andy Mikula's answer.

  • https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1: as of 2023-05, this url works for me sometimes. In my experiments, this URL skipped the redirect page when used with Google Chrome but not with Firefox. Also, the "I'm feeling lucky" feature kicks in only sometimes. Other times, it seems to give a normal google search page. For example, searching for github pyright with this url might give a google search page, whereas site:github.com pyright successfully redirects to https://github.com/microsoft/pyright. The URL suggested above comes from a review that I read on the reviews page of the Redirect Google Redirects chrome extension.

In each of the above sugggested URLs, %s is the search string.

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  • Just tested it, didn't work for me. – Blind Spots May 22 '23 at 17:37