If you fill in [gmail to docs] in google and click on i'm feeling lucky you get a different result then when you fill [gmail to docs] into the location bar of Firefox.

I always though Firefox just did a "i'm feeling lucky" search on google. But I think this recently changed. Now I get plain search results for searches with less certainty. Which is very cool and handy by the way.

For instance when I fill in [imdb borat] into the location bar (of Firefox 2) I am immediately redirected to the imdb page of the new Borat film.

How many of you just type stuff into the location bar?

I personally have a small shortcut ('g') which I type into the location bar to do a google search. But I think I won't have to do that anymore.

:D

Queries which give search results:
gmail to docs
seweso
wouter schut

Queries which result in redirect to first result:
google blogoscoped
imdb borat
wikipedia borat
google finance
microsoft
apple ipod

Hmm the location bar seems to be set to:

google.com/search?ie=UTF-8& ...

(this is the setting keyword.URL in about:config)

It's a Firefox 2 feature.

obsess.com/2006/09/29/feeling- ...

I might have missed the browse-by-name feature of google somehwhere...

Some more links:

google.com/support/toolbar/bin ...

blogoscoped.com/search.php?q=B ...

Don't mind me... I'm just doing my own thing here. Always nice to answer your own questions :$

Yeah, I also never understood why this thing is different (sometimes different?) from the Google #1 result. But recently I misspelled something while searching from the location bar and it brought up a Google search result with a "did you mean?" notice, which is very nice (and I guess new, too?).

The keyword.URL setting in Firefox 2 is set to:

google.com/search?ie=UTF-8& ...

it was set to a normal "I'm feeling lucky"-search.

This type of search has always been integrated in google toolbar and is called "Browse by name".

Philipp The "I'm Feeling Lucky" "bug" was "fixed" in Firefox 2. Now they use the Browse by name from Google Toolbar in IE.

Change the Keyword.URL to google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+F ...

It's not only a Firefox 2(It was with 1.5 as well) feature, if you have Google as your default search engine in IE7, it will do the same thing. (At least to me)