I’d start FireFox, type a single letter “s” in the URL window, and press enter. It goes to the McDonald’s web site. At first I thought maybe they had the s.com domain, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Why does this happen?
(In case you’re wondering, I often go to the URL window and type a single letter, then choose from the list of recently-visited URLs that begin with that letter that appears automatically. Sometimes I’d mess up and press enter before I choose any.)
It does a “I’m Feeling Lucky” Google search, which somehow comes out with McDonald’s.
Just tried it. Yup, that is odd indeed.
You do know, dontcha’, that if you just type in a name (such as “google”) and hit Ctrl + Enter, it puts the “http://www.” before and the".com" after and takes you right there?
Rysto nailed it.
Another interesting one is to just type “http”, without the quotes.
A is for Apple.
B is for the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
C is for cspan.
D is for dlink. (Of Course! :smack: )
E is for E! online.
F is for f-secure.
G is for Gmail.
H is for h-net.
I is for itools.
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Hmm…I just get a Google Search Results screen, with the “S” ticker symbol and a chart for “Sprint” on top.
J is for J-Low (natch)
K is for the K desktop enviornment (Whatever the hell that is)
L is for the European Union
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p.s., pulykamell, on the initial Google Search screen at www.google.com there is a “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Click that instead of “Search Now”.
V gets you the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Which is bizarre.
K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a desktop shell that runs on top of Linux, much like Gnome.
Incidentally, they should have made “C” for “Cookie.” That would have been good enough for me.
Thanks, that explains it. I guess Google looks at “McDonald’s” in the page title and indexes it as two words, “McDonald” and “s”.
Oh hell, was hoping it was for Victoria’s Secret. 
Guess what “cecil” gets you!
W gets you Dubya.
I’m still laughing at this.
M gets you Texas A&M
N gets you www.the-n.com
O gets you o’reilly publishing
P gets you pflag.org
Q gets you qformusic.com
R gets you r-project.org
T gets you at&t.com
U gets you university of arizona
W gets you the white house
X gets you x.org
Y gets you messenger.yahoo.com
Z gets you atozteacherstuff.com
Why yes, I do have too much time on my hands.
That is, B’Tselem…
I understand. I’m just saying that in Firefox, when I do what the OP says (typing “s” in the URL bar), it doesn’t automatically go to McDonald’s, but the Google results page.
Yep. It works for me! TOO!
Suspect the Mickey has another URL which redirects the “S” input.
Are you typing it in the URL bar and not the search bar? What version do you have?
And I think it’s just the 's in the web page title that’s causing this. Look at all the other top hits for single character searches - they mostly contain '<character> or <character>- (the search character preceded or followed by dash or apostrophe).