E is for eBay

Ebay headquarters in California. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP

You may remember them from primary school classrooms, strings of letters accompanied by a handy picture of a word beginning with the same letter: "a is for apple", etc. Not so in the online world, where it turns out that a is for Amazon.

Using Google Labs' new Suggest service - a feature that uses the letters you are typing to guess the most likely search term based on actual searches – the Register has assembled an A to Z for the modern world. None of it is too surprising, but it gives you a good idea of what people use the internet for. H is for Hotmail, K is for Kazaa and P is for Paris Hilton. Other concerns include the weather and maps.

As for the concerns of the older A-Zs, not only does Apple lose out to Amazon at the top of the alphabet, but its iPod is beaten into second place by Ikea. Another runner up is Google itself, which loses out on the top G ranking to "games". Still that means a significant number of people go to Google and type "Google". The internet really is a strange place.