The New York Times put together an interesting list earlier this week. It’s a list of 26 sites that have the distinction of being the first suggestion that Google search gives for each letter of the alphabet. A is for Amazon, F is for Facebook, O is for Office Depot. It’s the corporate alphabet of the Internet era, according to what the majority of people search for on Google.

NYT’s list is the American list, based on Google.com. But what does the list look like in other countries? @skrubu looked at the suggestions that Google.fi gives and put together the list for Finland. I decided to do the same for Google.ca, and so here is the Canadian list:

A – Air Canada
B – Best Buy Canada
C – Canadian Tire
D – Dictionary.com
E – ebay
F – Facebook
G – Gmail
H – Hotmail
I – Ikea
J – Jobbank (government site)
K – Kijiji
L – London Drugs
M – Mapquest
N – NHL
O – OSAP (Ontario Student Assistance Program)
P – Plentyoffish.com
Q – quotes
R – Rogers
S – sports quotes
T – TD Canada Trust
U – Urban Dictionary
V – VIA Rail
W – The Weather Network
X – XSCargo
Y – YouTube
Z – Zellers

Unlike the Finnish list, the beginning of the Canadian alphabet bears a lot of similarity to the American list. But then things change: for I the first suggestion is Ikea, J is for Jobbank, a Canadian government site, and O is the Ontario Student Assistance Program. Interestingly, the only bank that makes it to the list is TD, and not RBC, Scotiabank, or CIBC. N is for NHL. And the online dating site Plenty Of Fish shows up for P instead of Pandora which appears on the American list.

I would be interested in seeing what the same list looks like in Spain, in the UK, in Germany, in Japan, in Russia. Anyone want to put those together?

Karri Ojanen