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Did they really list the "I'm feeling lucky button" as a time saving feature in their first press release? I've spent a lot of time writing documents like this recently and I can only imagine how people would scold me for including a such a minor detail in a press release.


Bear in mind the time it would take to load the results page on a dialup connection.


Ahem. The “I’m feeling lucky button” might be a minor detail today but it for sure wasn’t then. Certainly not the thing to mention first (it isn’t) but considering the very narrow and minimalist scope of Google (then) nothing minor.

This is, however, quite a boilerplate press release. A [verb] B. X says [boss]. Boring. If you know one you know them all.




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