Google Tests Swapping ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ Button for ‘AI Mode’

Google is no longer feeling lucky, at least on its homepage.

The search giant expanded access to its AI Mode earlier this month, which provides more conversational AI responses to queries. And as Search Engine Roundtable notes, AI Mode now has a prominent position on Google.com, in some cases replaces the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

On X, some people spotted the AI Mode button on the right side of the search bar, with the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button still below. At PCMag, we see it replacing the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on personal accounts with AI Mode activated (above).

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AI Mode builds on the AI Overviews feature released last year. Instead of providing a snippet, AI Mode comes up with a detailed AI-generated response to search queries on a dedicated results page. To use it, you can type your query and click the dedicated AI Mode button along the top menu or go to google.com/aimode.

Its appearance on Google.com “is just one of many experiments,” Google tells The Verge.

The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button bypasses Google’s search results page and takes you directly to a website that Google thinks will answer your question. It’s unclear how many people actually use it. These days, many of us just type our queries into the URL menu rather than going to Google.com first. In 2007, Google estimated that only 1% of all searches went through the button.

Another notable change is that Google has updated its “G” logo for the first time in 10 years. Instead of placing four colors in four blocks, the new logo that flow into each other. The same pattern has also been observed around the AI Mode button. 

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