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I searched Super User and found the following existing questions:

None of the answers to these questions provide working solutions (as of today) to perform all searches in Chrome's omnibox (the box where you type in the URL) using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature.

Envisioned workflow:

  1. Put the cursor into the omnibox
  2. Type your search term, e.g. coffee
  3. The result returned by "I'm Feeling Lucky" should be directly opened in the tab

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Adding a new search engine to Google via the following worked for me:

1) Go to the Chrome Settings page and choose Search > Manage Search Engines

2) Go to add new search option. This might vary depending on what Chrome version you’re on, but you get the gist.

3) Give it a name, it doesn’t really matter what, I use “Go straight to”

4) Give it a shortcut key. This will tell Chrome you want to use the ‘Go straight to’ option. I use backslash “\”. So when you want to use Feeling Lucky, you type “\” followed a space and whatever name or term you want to go straight to.

5) In the third box for the URL, paste http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI

Source:
https://nairnrobertson.com/2013/10/29/everyday-hacks-use-google-feeling-lucky-inchromes-search-bar/

Note that as an alternative to step 1) you could copy and paste the following into a new tab:

chrome://settings/searchEngines?search=manage
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Working updated for 2022: (Similar to Matthew's answer with corrected url that doesn't show a redirect notice)

  • Press the 3 dots : - Than settings, than search for search and select manager search engines.
  • Go to add new search site option.
  • Give it a name, it doesn’t really matter what, I use "I'm Feeling Lucky"
  • Give it a shortcut key. This will tell Chrome you want to use the ‘Go straight to’ option. I use backslash \. So when you want to use Feeling Lucky, you type \ followed a space and whatever name or
    term you want to go straight to. In the third box for the URL, paste https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%s

Only disadvantage (or advantage) to this one is google won't redirect you to the page if it doesn't have high confidence it's the correct page. It will instead return search results. Seems to use google AI to determine weather to redirect you or not. Examples:

  • Searching \ final fantasy VII remake brings a google search page
  • Searching \ final fantasy VII remake wikipedia brings up the exact wikipedia article
  • Searching \ final fantasy VII remake pcgw brings up the exact pc gaming wiki article
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We can use DuckDuckGo (I’m feeling ducky) to open up the first URL from search results.

  1. Go to the address bar.
  2. Type Duck... and press Tab. Chrome autocompletes it except we are visiting it for the first time where we need to type duckduckgo.com
  3. Prepend \ before your query. For example, \react site.
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