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The ABC’s of Autocomplete (Canadian Edition)

Posted on December 6, 2010 at 5:08 pm

Google’s auto-complete has spawned lots of fun little experiments, fails, and general internet amusements. I figured I’d try my own little experiment: I opened up a Chrome Private Browsing window (so that none of my settings would be used), navigated to google.ca, and went through each letter of the alphabet to see what the first result would be.

Google Autocomplete
  • air canada
  • best buy
  • canada 411
  • dictionary
  • ebay
  • facebook
  • gmail
  • hotmail
  • ikea
  • jean coutu
  • kijiji
  • lespac
  • msn
  • nhl
  • occupation double
  • pirate bay
  • quotes
  • rds
  • stm
  • translator
  • utube
  • videotron
  • wikipedia
  • xe
  • youtube
  • zellers

Even though I was logged out Google does a certain amount of pruning based on IP-Address Geolocation, so your results may vary. These results are clearly more Québécois than what the average Canadian Google-user might uncover.

  • Rob

    Yup I can’t imagine RDS, STM or Jean Coutu coming up for anybody outside of Quebec!

  • http://twitter.com/damien_dube damien.dube

    I’m connect through TekSavvy, so google should geolocalize my in Toronto. These are the the differences

    job bank lcbo mapquest osap pizza pizza rogers skype ttc via rail walmart xbox

  • Kevin Branco

    Do you think occupation double would pop up anywhere outside Quebec?

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