A is for Amazon B is for Best Buy C is for CNN D is for Dictionary E is for Ebay F is for Firefox (yay!) G is for Games H is for Hotmail I is for Ikea J is for Jokes K is for Kazaa L is for Lyrics M is for Mapquest N is for News O is for Online dictionary P is for Paris Hilton (wtf?!) Q is for Quotes R is for Recipes S is for Spybot T is for Tara Reid U is for Ups V is for Verizon W is for Weather X is for Xbox Y is for Yahoo Z is for Zip Codes
1 is for 1
2 is for 2004 election
3 is for 3m
4 is for 411
5 is for 50 cent
6 is for 60 minutes
7 is for 7th heaven
8 is for 89.com (as bad as Paris Hilton!!)
9 is for 911
Its interesting to see the top results for every letter. As everyone has noticed, Paris Hilton... Tara Reid? Xbox beats playstation? OR perhaps that simply becasue Paris beats Playstation any day, but it doesnt even show up in the first 10 results? Thinks like Firefox bening first, and Internet Explorer 4th, I didn't think ikea was THAT big? Kazaa was a given. Google was second only to games. And Verizon takes the top two, although V has less words. Also with V are a number of Virgin Mobile entries. Cell ph
The fact that Paris Hilton is #1 for P does tell you that the suggestions are the most popular at the present, rather than just cumulatively popular over time. Paris Hilton beating out the #2 choice, PC World, might seem unfathomable to the/. community, but rest assured this Paris Hilton fad will end.
They definately are not. Try completing "asdfjklasdfjklasdfjklasdfjkl". It shows that there should be 4100 hits, but when you actually search for it, it returns none.
My guess is that it does some statistical magic based top-indexed search terms, because searching for only 'asdfjkl' does give around 4700 hits.
actually, I think it's doing that because when you type xxx, porn, or sex, it's pretty obvious what you want to find, while anything shorter is still ambiguous. They are suggesting searches, not actually doing the search.
0 is for 02 1 is for 1 2 is for 2004 Election 3 is for 3m 4 is for 411 5 is for 50 cent 6 is for 60 minutes 7 is for 7th heaven 8 is for 89.com 9 is for 911
That is based on alphabetics ordering, I think it would make more sense to sort based on rating. That has a little more significance when it comes to google.
A is amazon
B is for BBC
C is for cars
D is for Dell
E is for Ebay
G is for games
H is for http
I is for index
J is for jobs
K is for kelkoo
L is for love
M is for music
N is for news
O is for online games
P is for pubmed
Q is for quotes
R is for ringtones
S is for s (that is weird)
T is for target
U is for UPS
V is for virgin
W is for weather
X i
That is based on alphabetics ordering, I think it would make more sense to sort based on rating.
Google is ranking these suggestions so that the ones you're most likely to search for are higher. So even though 's' has more hits than 'spybot', Google thinks you're more likely to search for 'spybot'. That makes sense - the terms people search for most often are not necessarily the pages with the most search results (or the highest Pagerank).
"So even though 's' has more hits than 'spybot', Google thinks you're more likely to search for 'spybot'."
Interestingly (or not), I use "s, down-arrow, enter" as a quick way to get to slashdot using browser autocomplete. But if something happens in the wrong order, you get to the "I'm feeling lucky search for s", which is Hoover (the vacuum-cleaner manufacturers), a site that I always think is slightly freaky that they've taken the letter s as a website. Although on checking it now, the top result seems
People are clearly incompetent. The pages you want for amazon, bestbuy, cnn, ebay, firefox, hotmail, ikea, kazaa, mapquest, ups, verizon, yahoo, and xbox are all http://www.(name).com. Reasonable pages for dictionary and weather are the same.
There's something especially funny about people searching for yahoo on google.
Good lord. People have to search for some of these things? I mean seriously, what do they *think* is going to be the top result for amazon, ebay, hotmail, or yahoo?
These folks must also have the listing 911 bookmarked in their phonebook -- you know, for emergencies.
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The ABCs of Google Complete (Score:5, Interesting)
B is for Best Buy
C is for CNN
D is for Dictionary
E is for Ebay
F is for Firefox (yay!)
G is for Games
H is for Hotmail
I is for Ikea
J is for Jokes
K is for Kazaa
L is for Lyrics
M is for Mapquest
N is for News
O is for Online dictionary
P is for Paris Hilton (wtf?!)
Q is for Quotes
R is for Recipes
S is for Spybot
T is for Tara Reid
U is for Ups
V is for Verizon
W is for Weather
X is for Xbox
Y is for Yahoo
Z is for Zip Codes
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1 is for 1
2 is for 2004 election
3 is for 3m
4 is for 411
5 is for 50 cent
6 is for 60 minutes
7 is for 7th heaven
8 is for 89.com (as bad as Paris Hilton!!)
9 is for 911
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® is for ® symbol
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0 is for 02
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But why is 0 for 02?
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but what is the first result for "1"?
http://www.mozilla.org/
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Maybe they're waiting for Paris Hilton's NEXT video.
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The only book that has more copies published than the bible is the IKEA catalog. I'd say that's bigger than Jesus, so they're pretty big.
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P is for Paris Hilton (wtf?!)
The fact that Paris Hilton is #1 for P does tell you that the suggestions are the most popular at the present, rather than just cumulatively popular over time. Paris Hilton beating out the #2 choice, PC World, might seem unfathomable to the /. community, but rest assured this Paris Hilton fad will end.
Re:The ABCs of Google Complete (Score:5, Interesting)
x : xbox
xx: xxl
xxx:
p: paris hilton
po: poems
por: porsche
porn:
s: spybot
se: sears
sex:
Somehow, I don't think these are based purely on search requests
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Some kind of statistical thing maybe? (Score:2)
My guess is that it does some statistical magic based top-indexed search terms, because searching for only 'asdfjkl' does give around 4700 hits.
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Also, anything that doesn't have statistics doesn't show any.
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1 is for 1
2 is for 2004 Election
3 is for 3m
4 is for 411
5 is for 50 cent
6 is for 60 minutes
7 is for 7th heaven
8 is for 89.com
9 is for 911
Re:The ABCs of Google Complete (Score:2, Informative)
A is amazon
B is for BBC
C is for cars
D is for Dell
E is for Ebay
G is for games
H is for http
I is for index
J is for jobs
K is for kelkoo
L is for love
M is for music
N is for news
O is for online games
P is for pubmed
Q is for quotes
R is for ringtones
S is for s (that is weird)
T is for target
U is for UPS
V is for virgin
W is for weather
X i
Re:The ABCs of Google Complete (Score:4, Insightful)
Google is ranking these suggestions so that the ones you're most likely to search for are higher. So even though 's' has more hits than 'spybot', Google thinks you're more likely to search for 'spybot'. That makes sense - the terms people search for most often are not necessarily the pages with the most search results (or the highest Pagerank).
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Interestingly (or not), I use "s, down-arrow, enter" as a quick way to get to slashdot using browser autocomplete. But if something happens in the wrong order, you get to the "I'm feeling lucky search for s", which is Hoover (the vacuum-cleaner manufacturers), a site that I always think is slightly freaky that they've taken the letter s as a website. Although on checking it now, the top result seems
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There's something especially funny about people searching for yahoo on google.
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JtM
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These folks must also have the listing 911 bookmarked in their phonebook -- you know, for emergencies.