Neal Googles the Alphabet
A is for A. That's an oddly Randian way to start this project. 16.4 billion hits.
B is for Physical Review B, an international journal specializing in condensed-matter phenomena, as well as materials physics. But perhaps more notably is that B is for child pornography: "In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org." According to them, "Sometimes, innocent search terms appear on pages that also contain unlawful material." Like, apparently, the letter B. 2.93 billion hits.
C is for Citigroup. Also, google helpfully provides us with the speed of light: 299,792,458 m/s. 4.1 billion hits.
D is for D Programming Language. It's like C++ but even further advanced from an alphabetical point of view. 5.1 billion hits.
E is for E! Online Entertainment News, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity News. Also, e = 2.71828183. 6.1 billion hits.
F is for FORD MOTOR CO. 2.8 billion hits.
G is for Gmail. I wonder if that could have anything to do with the search engine I'm using... 2.06 billion hits.
H is for Hydrogen. Google also explains that Planck's constant = 6.626068×10^-34 kgm^2/s. 2.01 billion hits.
I is for Apple. Hmm. That's the first amusingly counterintuitive one. Download music and more with iTunes. Play it all on iPod. 7.8 billion hits.
J is for J. 2.1 billion hits.
K is for K. And the Boltzmann constant = 1.3806503 × 10^-23 m^2 kg s^-2 K^-1. 1.95 billion hits.
L is for L. 4.2 billion hits.
M is for M&M's. Yum! 4.4 billion hits.
N is for N, a free action game from AddictingGames! Also, although Google inexplicably missed this, N is for Neal. 4.7 billion hits.
O is for "O", Cirque du Soleil's resident show at Bellagio in Las Vegas. 4.3 billion hits.
P is for P. 3.6 billion hits.
Q is for Q. 1.91 billion hits.
R is for The R Project for Statistical Computing. 2.5 billion hits.
S is for SPRINT NXTEL CP. 5.8 billion hits.
T is for the T. That's the Boston subway. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Charlie Tickets and the Big Dig. Red Sox. Etc. 5.5 billion hits.
U is for the HTML u tag. I wonder what that does. 2.2 billion hits.
V is for V at ABC.com. 3.4 billion hits.
W is for W, directed by Oliver Stone. 2.4 billion hits.
X is for X the band. 2.94 billion hits.
Y is for Yahoo! 2.9 billion hits.
Z is for Z. 1.78 billion hits.
Interesting things about the results:
A is the most popular letter, with 16.44 billion hits. Z is the least popular letter, with 1.78 billion hits. Coincidence or conspiracy? You decide.
B is the only letter that is for child porn.
T was the only letter that is for a site that my browser had stored as visited.
Five letters also produced Google Finance results from the NYSE: F K Q V X
Seven letters' top hits were their own wikipedia page: A J K L P Q Z
- their second hits were: HTML a tag, J programming language, Kelvin, Carl Linnaeus, Phosphorous, Q from James Bond, and Z Communications.
Four letters produced mathematical constants: C E H K
I spent way, way too much time doing this with no discernible purpose.
Two letters produced results with exclamation marks: E Y
B is for Physical Review B, an international journal specializing in condensed-matter phenomena, as well as materials physics. But perhaps more notably is that B is for child pornography: "In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org." According to them, "Sometimes, innocent search terms appear on pages that also contain unlawful material." Like, apparently, the letter B. 2.93 billion hits.
C is for Citigroup. Also, google helpfully provides us with the speed of light: 299,792,458 m/s. 4.1 billion hits.
D is for D Programming Language. It's like C++ but even further advanced from an alphabetical point of view. 5.1 billion hits.
E is for E! Online Entertainment News, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity News. Also, e = 2.71828183. 6.1 billion hits.
F is for FORD MOTOR CO. 2.8 billion hits.
G is for Gmail. I wonder if that could have anything to do with the search engine I'm using... 2.06 billion hits.
H is for Hydrogen. Google also explains that Planck's constant = 6.626068×10^-34 kgm^2/s. 2.01 billion hits.
I is for Apple. Hmm. That's the first amusingly counterintuitive one. Download music and more with iTunes. Play it all on iPod. 7.8 billion hits.
J is for J. 2.1 billion hits.
K is for K. And the Boltzmann constant = 1.3806503 × 10^-23 m^2 kg s^-2 K^-1. 1.95 billion hits.
L is for L. 4.2 billion hits.
M is for M&M's. Yum! 4.4 billion hits.
N is for N, a free action game from AddictingGames! Also, although Google inexplicably missed this, N is for Neal. 4.7 billion hits.
O is for "O", Cirque du Soleil's resident show at Bellagio in Las Vegas. 4.3 billion hits.
P is for P. 3.6 billion hits.
Q is for Q. 1.91 billion hits.
R is for The R Project for Statistical Computing. 2.5 billion hits.
S is for SPRINT NXTEL CP. 5.8 billion hits.
T is for the T. That's the Boston subway. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Charlie Tickets and the Big Dig. Red Sox. Etc. 5.5 billion hits.
U is for the HTML u tag. I wonder what that does. 2.2 billion hits.
V is for V at ABC.com. 3.4 billion hits.
W is for W, directed by Oliver Stone. 2.4 billion hits.
X is for X the band. 2.94 billion hits.
Y is for Yahoo! 2.9 billion hits.
Z is for Z. 1.78 billion hits.
Interesting things about the results:
A is the most popular letter, with 16.44 billion hits. Z is the least popular letter, with 1.78 billion hits. Coincidence or conspiracy? You decide.
B is the only letter that is for child porn.
T was the only letter that is for a site that my browser had stored as visited.
Five letters also produced Google Finance results from the NYSE: F K Q V X
Seven letters' top hits were their own wikipedia page: A J K L P Q Z
- their second hits were: HTML a tag, J programming language, Kelvin, Carl Linnaeus, Phosphorous, Q from James Bond, and Z Communications.
Four letters produced mathematical constants: C E H K
I spent way, way too much time doing this with no discernible purpose.
Two letters produced results with exclamation marks: E Y