Not many might not have used, if not noticed about the Google Lucky search feature. Instead of clicking on Search button, if you click on “I’m Feeling Lucky”, Google would automatically redirect to the first result. This would be very useful many times, if you want to select the url from bookmarks or type the full address. Even better is adding a Search Keyword in Firefox so you can just type “gl ” and have it taken automatically to the url. Here is how to add your firefox.

1. Download this search plugin xml and add to the “Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins” folder. In Windows, it would be “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins”.

2. Open your Firefox browser and select “Manage Search Engines…” in the Search box

3. Select “Google Lucky” on the list of Search Engines and Click on “Edit Keyword”

4. Enter gl as the keyword and Click Ok (twice)

5. You are good to go, give it a try. Type “gl java 1.5 api” and notice that you are taken automatically to the Java 1.5 API Spec in Java.