I promise I'm not bored

Here's a little exercise I found interesting, because I'm nerdy that way. When you do a search from Google's main page (or the iGoogle page), Google will drop down a list of suggestions that narrows as you enter more letters into the field:

I really haven't figured out why certain words make it to the top of the list, especially since there are words further down that have more results. Perhaps it's just the popularity of the search term itself that promotes it. Regardless, I thought it would be fun to see what words come up to the top for each letter in the alphabet and numerical digit, and maybe some punctuation marks as well:

• A - amazon
  
• B - best buy
  
• C - craigslist
  
• D - dictionary
  
• E - ebay
  
• F - facebook
  
• G - google
  
• H - hotmail
  
• I - imdb
  
• J - jcpenney
  
• K - kohls
  
• L - lowes
  
• M - myspace
  
• N - netflix
  
• O - orkut
  
• P - photobucket
  
• Q - quotes
  
• R - runescape
  
• S - sears
  
• T - target
  
• U - utube
  
• V - verizon wireless
  
• W - walmart
  
• X - xbox 360
  
• Y - youtube
  
• Z - zappos
  
• 0 - 007
  
• 1 - 123 greetings
  
• 2 - 2012
  
• 3 - 30 rock
  
• 4 - 411
  
• 5 - 50 cent
  
• 6 - 60 minutes
  
• 7 - 7zip
  
• 8 - 808's and heartbreak
  
• 9 - 90210
  
• period - .com
  
• ampersand - &nbsp
  
• at symbol - @home
  
• underscore - _server

Most of these are not surprising, as they are the names of major retailers, social network or search engines. The letter R was unexpected, as I would have thought that something like ringtones, rotten tomatoes, recipes, rhapsody or even r2d2 might have shown up first. Evidently, Runescape is that popular.

Most punctuation marks like ? and * didn't generate any dropdown at all, probably because Google uses them as search tools.