Comments on: Can I "Feel Lucky" at a particular site?

Question: Can I "Feel Lucky" at a particular site?

bonecrusher — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:20:30 -0800

Does anyone know how to combine sitesearch and Feeling Lucky in google URLs? I'm trying to create a search string that will search MSDN for a particular keyword and take me to the first match. The following URL does what I want (from this old ask.mefi), except it won't limit the search to a particular domain:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&btnI=Feeling+Lucky&q=strlen

If I add a site to the query string, though, it no longer behaves like the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. Instead, it shows a list of matches:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_sitesearch=msdn.microsoft.com&btnI=Feeling+Lucky&q=strlen

Is what I'm doing impossible?

By: neustile

neustile — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:46:43 -0800

Weird. It only works for certain queries:

this search for strlen does redirect but this search for directx does redirect automatically.

By: neustile

neustile — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:47:07 -0800

sorry, the first should say "this search for strlen does not redirect"

By: Lanark

Lanark — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:17:57 -0800

Try this syntax: strLen

It works by passing 3 parameters:
&site:whatever.com
&q=YourQueryString
&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky

By: Lanark

Lanark — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:08:47 -0800

^ sorry that still ignores the site

By: Lanark

Lanark — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:51:55 -0800

OK I think that whats happening here is the page listed in the Google index is being redirected to another page, either because it's 404 or because the page has moved. Google must be detecting that and canceling the 'Lucky' feature.

e.g. Searching ibm.com for strlen the first result is this but the page then redirects to here

Searching cplusplus.com for strlen the first result is still a valid page so the feeling lucky option works as you'd expect.