What’s the URL, Kenneth?

[ornoth]

One browser feature I make frequent use of is the auto-complete in the URL field. I can almost always get to the URL I want within one or two keystrokes and one or two down-arrows. Usually it’s a nice combination of sites I’ve visited recently and sites I visit most often.

This got me thinking about what URLs would come up as the first result for a one-character search starting with each letter of the alphabet. That is, go to your URL bar and type ’A’ and see what comes up, then ’B’, etc.

Thus another new meme is born, courtesy of YT.

Here’s what came up for me this evening:

1. Internet Archive
2. Bank of America
3. Google Calendar
4. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
5. Livejournal Export
6. Monster Master
7. Garmin Connect
8. Hulu Queue
9. Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
10. jQuery
11. Kongregate
12. LogMeIn
13. Google Maps
14. New England Cable News
15. OrnothLand
16. Pan-Mass Challenge
17. Karma of Questions
18. Google Reader
19. Sapient
20. Google Translate
21. UPS Tracking Info
22. Vendome Condominiums
23. WCVB
24. Monster Master
25. My YouTube Videos
26. Zipcar Jobs

Comments

[imperator-mei.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately my URL autocompletion is primarily governed by bookmarks which I haven't bothered to purge. W, for example, points to www.warnerbros.com, a site I probably have never actually visited. B indicates bartleby.com – another site utterly unfamiliar to me – instead of Bank of America, which I routinely visit.