After accidentally entering just ‘s’ in my Firefox address bar and pressing enter, and having been redirected to McDonald’s website, I immediately started wondering who owns the Google Alphabet. (Because Firefox address bar redirects to Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” if it doesn’t contain a valid URI.) Here are the results, looked up with English (US) Google. (Obviously for other languages the list is a bit different, for example in Finnish Google White House gets top ranking for letter W, in English it comes only second.)
- A: Apple
- B: bhphotovideo.com
- C: C-SPAN
- D: D-Link
- E: E! Online
- F: FuckedCompany.com
- G: Gmail
- H: H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
- I: Apple – iPod + iTunes
- J: Jennifer Lopez
- K: K Mart
- L: Council of Europe
- M: Texas A&M University
- N: AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: Blue Web’n Homepage
- O: O’Reilly
- P: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Q: Q4music.com
- R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
- S: McDonald’s
- T: AT&T
- U: The University of Arizona
- V: V for Vendetta
- W: W Hotels
- X: X.Org Foundation
- Y: Yahoo! Messenger
- Z: A to Z Teacher Stuff