Google’s new Instant Search facility has got the web all a flutter. As an experiment I entered each letter of the alphabet to see what came back for each. This indicates Google’s own records of what we really really want.
UK
A – Argos
B – BBC
C – Curry’s
D – Debenhams
E – Ebay
F – Facebook
G – Google Maps
H – Hotmail
I – ITV
J – John Lewis
K – KLM
L – National Lottery
M – MSN
N – Next
O – O2
P – Paypal
Q – QVC
R – Rightmove
S – Sky
T – Tesco
U – YouTube
V – Virgin
W – BBC Weather
X – XBox
Y – YouTube (again)
Z – Zara
USA
A – Amazon
B – Best Buy
C – Craigslist
D – Dictionary.com
E – Ebay
F – Facebook
G – Gmail
H – Hotmail
I – Ikea
J – JetBlue
K – Kohls
L – Lowes
M – Mapquest
N – Netflix
O – Orbitz
P – Pandora
Q – BrainyQuote.com
R – REI
S – Sears
T – Target
U – USPS (United States Postal Service)
V – Verizon
W – Weather.com
X – Xbox
Y – Yahoo!
Z – Zillow
Interesting to see that Argos comes above Amazon in the UK list.
I thought the same
Surely that is what YOU really want? It’s based on what you typed in previous searches ….. here is how Google describes Instant:
You really want search-before-you-type—that is, you want results for the most likely search given what you have already typed.
As you can imagine, searching even before someone types isn’t easy—which is why we are so excited today to be unveiling Google Instant. Google Instant is search-before-you-type. Instant takes what you have typed already, predicts the most likely completion and streams results in real-time for those predictions