Dot Dot Dot.com, the Quiz

Posted by Miss Cellania in Mentalfloss on March 19, 2008 at 12:50 pm


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The luchtime quiz today at mental_floss is based on a quirk in Sandy’s websurfing experience.

We’ve all spent time goofing off on the Web… Googling our own names, clicking on weird links, thwacking penguins. Web marketers know this, so companies often grab “major league” one-word URLs (like, say, www.love.com, which goes to AOL’s personals site). But sometimes, sites don’t take you where you think they might. It used to drive me crazy that, until the last few years, keying in MLB.com didn’t take you to the official pro baseball site, but to a law firm known as Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. (That situation has since been rectified.)

This quiz names 15 big URLs, and you’ll try to determine where those addresses go.

I only scored 10 out of 15. Maybe you can do better. Link


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7 comments to "Dot Dot Dot.com, the Quiz"

  1. Crash
    March 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    The link did not work for me.... :(

  2. jojo
    March 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Ahem. Ironically, the link is broken:

    Sorry the page you were looking for is not here

  3. Miss Cellania
    March 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    Opps, sorry to put a quirk in your websurfing experience! A case of a misplaced slash. It's fixed now.

  4. emptyminded
    March 19th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    When I googled my own name, I found out it was being used by an adult film actress.

  5. Thespian24601
    March 19th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    Please tell me it's your name in real life and not "emptyminded" lol. I got 10 out of 15 too.

  6. Andrew G
    March 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    meh, took the quiz, and it's not worth your time, it's just a 50-50 guess for each site, no real skill or knowledge required

  7. kim
    March 20th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    dot dot dot com
    Score: 73% (11 out of 15)
    Not too shabby I think


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