google/microsoft

Out of curiosity I entered google.com/microsoft into my browser the other day, and what do you know... there's a page there!

There's nothing on this page to make one think it's Microsoft specific other than this image of the rolling green hills we all know and loathe... errr love:

And as you can see it is even more stripped-down than the standard Google search page; i.e. there are no links above the search field (web, images, groups, news, etc.). Also, using the search on the page doesn't do anything special, it just spits out the expected Google search and not the contents of Bill Gates' personal fileserver -- damn!

Anyway, I figured if Microsoft has the extreme privilige and honour of owning its own root google.com subfolder, I thought that others must surely share this privilige too... not so!

google.com/apple was the first one I tried (of course), which resulted in this very friendly Google 404 message:

So then I tried a few others, mostly big companies like Sun, Cisco, Intel, AMD, IBM. I even tried Yahoo. Okay, Yahoo is Google's main contender so it stands to reason... but what about the rest?

Hmmm... would any readers care to shed some darkness?