The 110 Million Dollar Button 191
Reservoir Hill writes "The 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button on Google's search page may cost the company up to $110 million in lost ad revenue every year according to a report on American Public Media's Marketplace. Tom Chavez says that since the company makes money selling ads on its search results page, the 1% of users who use the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button never see Google's ads - the button automatically directs them to their first search result. So why does Google keep the button? Marisa Mayer, Google's vice president responsible for everything on the search page, says that 'it's possible just to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money' and the 'I'm Feeling Lucky,' button reminds you that 'people here have personality.' Web usability expert Jacob Nielsen says the whimsy serves another business purpose: 'Oh we're just two kind of grad students hanging out and having a beer and having a grand old time,' not you know, 'We are 16,000 people working on undermining your privacy.'"
Lottery! (Score:1, Funny)
$40 Million Dollar Logo (Score:5, Funny)
see... (Score:4, Funny)
And my capcha was confide, spooky...
Re:It's a subliminal suggestion (Score:5, Funny)
Luckily, they don't have the "I'm feeling bored to death", otherwise i would spend too much time there.
french military victories (Score:3, Funny)
Needs more risk (Score:5, Funny)
In order to generate a real, winner-takes-all atmosphere of living on the edge, an element of risk should be introduced. For instance, a 60% chance of going to the first search result, a 30% chance of going to tubgirl, a 9% chance of having your identity stolen and a 1% chance of having bomb-making instructions downloaded to your machine and a tip-off email sent to the relevant authorities.
Re:Small change (Score:5, Funny)
What Jacob Nielsen said (Score:5, Funny)
Time to put on the tin foil hat -- I am on to you now google! You just made my list!
solution! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:AJAX (Score:4, Funny)
Re:french military victories (Score:2, Funny)
Tough Job (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Small change (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Small change (Score:5, Funny)
Which part of "I'm feeling lucky" was it that you didn't understand?
Re:Small change (Score:3, Funny)