• First GMail, and now GBuy.  Looks like prefixing products with the letter "G" is going to be a defining feature of Google.

    On single-letter prefixes of the Internet age:

    First there was "e", as in "e-mail", "eBay" and "evite".  The "e" prefix standing for "electronic" became synonymous with all things Internet...although electronics, now that's a technology that dates from before most people alive today were born; to denote all things Internet, you really need "i", which leads us to...

    Apple's "i" prefix.  I never found out what that "i" stands for in iMac and iPod.  Intelligent?  (Anyone knows, drop me a line.) 

    Now "G".  There are 23 more letters to go.  :)