Instant Letters

After I blogged this morning about yesterday’s experience with Google Instant, I read this articleon the Huffington Post.  The author used Google Instant to go through the alphabet and see what the top results were.  It was all based on the question “Why does W get the weather?”  At the end of the article, Craig Kanalley asked “Are your results the same?”

It’s an interesting question and if they are the same everywhere, it lends some credibility perhaps that you can buy your way to the top of results.  But, I can easily think of reasons why they would differ.

• geography of your IP address;
• your login – Instant is only available if you’re looked in with your Google account;
• your browsing / search history.

So, I did try a couple and some were the same but yet, some were different.  Here are the results from my certainly non-scientific time wasting exercise and a bonus at the bottom

The letters are courtesy of Spell with Flickr.

HP – AOL
Me – Amazon – AOL was second

HP – Bank of America
Me – Best Buy – Bank of America was second

HP – Craigslist
Me – Craigslist

HP – Dictionary
Me – Dictionary

HP – eBay
Me – eBay

HP – Facebook
Me – Facebook

HP – Gmail
Me – Gmail

HP – Hotmail
Me – Hotmail

HP – Ikea
Me – Ikea

HP – Jet Blue
Me – Jet Blue

HP – Kmart
Me – Kohl’s

HP – Lowes
Me – Kohl’s

HP – Mapquest
Me – Mapquest

HP – Netflix
Me – Netflix

HP – Orbitz
Me – Orbitz

HP – Pandora
Me – Pandora

HP – BrainyQuotes
Me – BrainyQuotes

HP – Realtor.com
Me – Rei – Realtor.com was second

HP – Staples
Me – Sears – Staples was fourth

HP – Target
Me – Target

HP – UPS
Me – USPS – UPS was second

HP – Verison
Me – Verison

HP – Weather
Me – Weather

HP – Xbox
Me – Xbox

HP – Yahoo!
Me – Yahoo!

HP – Zappos
Me – Zillow – Zappos was second

And, as a bonus, here are my results for the digits from 0-9.

007

14th Amendment

24

3ds

4chan

50 cent

60 minutes

7zip

84 lumber

90210