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March 31, 2005

Google Owns 466453.com

An other whacky thread at DigitalPoint forums named Why does google own this domain? Some member must of randomly typed in http://www.466453.com/ and ended up at a Google page.

Its very interesting, don't you think?

The answer: Take a look at your telephone keypad, and match up the numbers to the letters.

4 GHI
6 MNO
6 MNO
4 GHI
5 JKL
3 DEF

Those Google people are such geeks. I bet others have done this as well, and if not, they are going to do it now. :)



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Posted by Michel at March 31, 2005 11:56

Thanks Michel, that explains it.

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at March 31, 2005 12:00

Yahoo owns 92466.net /org /info /biz but the .com ?

 

Posted by Michel at March 31, 2005 12:06

Wow talk about mega nerds. This has got to be the biggest case of geekism and nerdism out there. Whats Next, there own search world out in space?
peace
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Posted by Brian Faxless Guy at November 19, 2005 13:01

This isn't about geekism or pride or whatever you idiots want to call it. it's to make google easier to access from a phone. They have even confirmed this. Google is about being an easy to use and effective search engine, not about being geekier than everyone else.

 

Posted by VitaminG at August 7, 2007 14:28

466453.com is what we call a 'Number That Works"

1-Dash and 1-Dial domains begin with a 1-

Best examples:
1-pizza.com
1-pizza.mobi
1-74992.com
1-74992.mobi (pizza on a keypad)

Domains that look like phone numbers.

 

Posted by ntwweb at March 24, 2008 09:06

Actually when they made Google UK and Google they made a website called Google English which when you the numbers 466453.com took you to and yes they also used this site for your phones! Yet they then decided that if you are from the UK you should be automatically re-directed to good UK all the time as the search results are move relevent to you and as such scrapped the Google English homepage and kept it for your mobile phones, so Michel you were half right.

 

Posted by Nicholas Dufton at June 3, 2008 15:34

Music

Google Owns 466453.

 

Posted by dave at June 4, 2008 15:42

If you send a text message to 466453 its like a google search. The results are texted back to you. Maybe that has something to do with it.

 

Posted by philip at May 26, 2009 19:06

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