Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode

Only Google Labs users tin presently spot the experiment. | Image: Google / <a href="https://www.threads.com/@chris/post/DJkf7LZB8eC?xmt=AQF0-VsPgfBDfV46VV2jdT3gJzbSeP1jQuParZuSHd99jA">Chris Messina</a>

Some Google Search users are starting to spot the platform’s AI Mode hunt motor chatbot successful the wild. Several idiosyncratic reports crossed X and Threads amusement that Google is investigating antithetic locations to show the AI Mode tab — portion immoderate examples amusement it successful the hunt barroom itself, too the “search by image” button, successful others it replaces the “I’m Feeling Lucky” fastener underneath the hunt bar.

There’s besides immoderate saltation to the quality of the AI Mode button, with immoderate users seeing a rotating rainbow borderline erstwhile the cursor hovers over it. In different illustration wherever AI Mode has replaced “I’m Feeling Lucky,” the rainbow borderline is seemingly the default design, and makes the search-focused AI chatbot fastener basal retired among Google’s different offerings.

Google said connected May 1st that a “small percentage” of radical successful the US would soon commencement seeing an AI Mode enactment successful Google Search, but the screenshots of these tests springiness america immoderate thought of wherever it whitethorn beryllium placed erstwhile (or if) it rolls retired to the wider public. For now, Google spokesperson Ashley Thompson told The Verge that AI Mode successful Search is presently constricted to users of Google’s experimental Labs environment.

“We often trial antithetic ways for radical to entree our adjuvant features,” said Thompson. “This is conscionable 1 of galore experiments.”

It’s not guaranteed that the “I’m Feeling Lucky” enactment volition officially beryllium replaced by AI Mode, but adjacent the cognition that Google is considering it whitethorn upset folks who usage the niche feature. The fastener that takes users straight to the archetypal webpage of immoderate hunt results has been a fixture of Google’s homepage since the hunt motor launched. This whitethorn beryllium Google’s mode of suggesting that AI Mode’s chatbot-like responses to hunt queries are much businesslike than allowing users to bypass the accepted hunt results page.