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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
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Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button now offers 8 more suggestions


I'm Feeling luck button on Google has other options now

For as far as anyone can remember the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button on Google has always been there. It has always been around making one wonder why it's there. Did it hold any real value other that a small bit of entertainment to break the monotony of the day. That has now all been changed and when you mouse over the 'I'm feeling lucky button you 8 other options to choose from. When clicking on any of these new options you are led to some other Google Property - usually the ones know as 'Easter Eggs' by Google. Gives Google the opportunity to keep users on their own site and not loose traffic to other sites. Another reasons for this is that it leads to some pretty interesting Easter eggs and can be fun to play around with.

How do I view these options:
Just head over to Google and mouse-over the I'm Feeling Lucky button and see the options change. Move your mouse around for more options. 

There are 8 different options to the I'm feeling lucky button and we have made a list of them down below for you with a link to the Google site each one leads to.

List of I'm Feeling Lucky alternatives
1. I'm Feeling Doodle - leads to the Google Doodle site.
2. I'm Feeling Artistic - leads you to a Google Art project.
3. I'm Feeling Wonderful - leads you to Google World Wonders Project.
4. I'm Feeling Playful - leads you to random interactive Google Doodle.
5. I'm Feeling Trendy - leads you to Google Trends the place to find out what are the hot trends for the moment.
6. I'm Feeling Puzzled - leads you to a Google a day puzzles, available one at a day. 
7. I'm Feeling Hungry - leads you to a normal Google search for restaurants close by.
8. I'm Feeling Stella - leads you to a normal Google Images search and display results from the heavens.

So the next time you feel bored and are wondering what to do with your time online - here's something to keep you occupied and busy.




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