Thotz from Dr Mike

Random Thoughts from the Desk of Mike

Category: Web A to Z
Posted by: mike40033
Google's top hit for the letter I is ION Television

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Category: Web A to Z
Posted by: mike40033
With a page rank of 7, the top page given on a google search of H is the article about Hydrogen on wikipedia.

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Category: Web A to Z
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According to Google, the most important page for the letter 'G' is Google's own email service, GMail. (Yahoo points me instead to Google's Calendar service).

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Category: Web A to Z
Posted by: mike40033
I like this company. Back in the '90's, they were the only company I could find that produced a free antivirus for home use (f-prot). With a google pagerank of 7, and an Alexa Traffic Rank of 11314, F-Secure comes out tops for a google search for the letter F.

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Category: Web A to Z
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Searching for the letter 'e' returns E! Online. Never heard of them before.

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Category: Web A to Z
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Well how about that. The American Physics Society's journals come out tops searches for D.

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Category: Web A to Z
Posted by: mike40033
It's interesting that the most "important" C is, according to google, the C Programming Language, and the best explanation of it is its wikipedia article.

Google is also kind enough to tell me that the speed of light (denoted c) is 299 792 458 metres per second, and to inform me about Citigroup's current share price.

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Category: Web A to Z
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Physical Review B is one of the American Physics Society's array of about a dozen academic journals. It came up tops in a google search for the letter 'B'. (PRA was in second place in yesterday's search.)

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Category: Web A to Z
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This is the first of a series of 26 blog posts, where (for some unknown reason) I'll see - and write about - what google spits out for the letters of the alphabet.

Or maybe it won't. There's a chance I'll give up partway through. We'll see...

When I type 'A' into Google, the top-ranking result is A List Apart. Google Pagerank 9, Alexa Traffic Rank 1400.

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