Suppose that you’re using Google to find something. Maybe you’re looking for a company that can provide data protection solutions based on identity-based encryption and format-preserving encryption, so you start typing “data protection” into Google. Google actually tries to guess what you’re looking for and provides a list of these guesses that you can use to save having to type your complete query. And because it even does this when you give it the first letter of your query, it seems to make sense to use its top suggestions to make an “Internet alphabet.” I’m sure that someone’s already done this, but I don’t really spend much time looking for random stuff on the Internet, so I haven’t actually come across it. But when I tried each of the letters of the alphabet, here’s today’s Internet alphabet:
Letter |
Google’s top suggestion |
A |
Amazon |
B |
|
C |
Craigslist |
D |
Dictionary |
E |
ESPN |
F |
|
G |
Gmail |
H |
Hotmail |
I |
Ikea |
J |
|
K |
Kayak |
L |
|
M |
Mapquest |
N |
|
O |
Orbitz |
P |
|
Q |
|
R |
Redbox |
S |
Southwest |
T |
Target |
U |
|
V |
Virgin America |
W |
|
X |
Xfinity |
Y |
|
Z |
Zillow |