Add the google I’m feeling lucky! search as a search provider in internet explorer
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Google search has a lot of advanced search capabilities. An interesting feature is the “I’m feeling lucky” search option. It takes the user directly to the first search result without going through the search results page. If a user “is feeling lucky” 
, the search engine will return the perfect match to him . It can save a lot of time on certain search strings. According to a google employee, roughly 1% of the google searches are through this option and it costs google more that 110 million dollars annually as the ads on the search result page are now out of the question.Then why does google continue this?Well i guess google is not completely commercial 
.Adding this search option to internet explorer can greatly enhance your browsing experience, as i had found it to be.
To add it to search providers in internet explorer,we need the search URL .As there is no search results page or any sort of redirection when a search is carried on this way, noting the url directly is impossible. The URL to use is
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