As Google celebrates It’s 8th year It’s fun to look back on Google and how it all started.

Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google’s use of the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

For a complete history on the Big G take a look here

This is a top ten list of some of the coolest things that Google Earth captured from a bomber flying over head to a nude sun bather, Enjoy.

1. Capsized Cruise Ship Captured in Google Earth / Maps

2. KC-135 Caught Refueling C-5 Galaxy in Mid-Air in Google Earth!

3. Huge Scale Model of Disputed Border Region of China Found in Google Earth

4. Lancaster Bomber Caught Flying in Google Earth

5. Flying Car? Not Really

6. Nude Sunbather caught by google earth.

7. Firefox Crop Circle in Google Earth

8. Google Earth Las Vegas

9. Shipwrecks Around the Google Earth

10. See African Animals in High Resolution in Google Earth

If you havent yet been to Google Earth go check it out its very interesting. You can even see an overhead view of your own house.

A really cool article at Modern Day Alchemist shows you how to use the + sign in your gmail address to create multiple email addresses.

“Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it’ll still get to your inbox. It’s called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here’s how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com and set up a filter to label it work (to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com. Then add the label work).

More real world examples:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
pinkyrocks+nytimes@gmail.com for nytimes.com
pinkyrocks+freestuff@gmail.com for freestuff.com
Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.”

Rumors are flying around that google will soon have its own ATM/Debit cards. This could possibly mean that Paypal will soon have competition and no longer be a monopoly. Another question has come up “will Google allow its Adsense advertisers to withdraw funds with the new card”? I dont see why not.

All this news stems from Googles recent domain registration.

Domain Name: googlemastercard.com

Registrant:
Google Inc.
(DOM-1368027)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View
CA
94043 US