I'm Feeling Lucky

When's the last time you used the I'm Feeling Lucky button on Google's homepage?
I was sure they'd taken it off a while ago. It makes sense for them to do so; I'm sure it costs Google a lot of money to have a button that essentially lets you skip all the ads on the results page.

For the first time in the last few days I decided I'll try using it. I do most of my searches in the FireFox search toolbar, so at first I rolled my own search engine customization using this site . Then I noticed that the Google Toolbar in FireFox already has that feature (you can use IFL as your search engine instead of plain Google).

I have to say, I'm hooked. I now realize that most of my Google searches are basically just "jump to" navigations using keywords I already know would find me the right page. You want to go to Slashdot.org? Just type slashdot in the IFL box and you're there.
Only occasionally do I actually "not feel lucky" and I find myself switching back to plain Google search. But most of the time, even when Google's #1 result isn't exactly the page I was looking for, it's a very decent substitute.

This makes me wish Google could tell me what keywords will get me to certain pages. In other words, I wish I could ask Google "what's the shortest/easiest thing I could type to get to ____?".

Anyway, this guy's dead wrong about the IFL button. It may be the case that the majority of Googlers don't use it, but that's no reason to take it off. I think it would be better if Google figured out how to get people to use it more, if anything. I feel stupid, not having used it for all those years.