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Google Maps Graduates
Anonymous writes "It appears that Google's dynamic, interactive map program, Google Maps, has finally made it out of the labs. Now it has merged with Google Local and has been updated on the homepage. Another great stride in Google's quest to conquer the internet." Graduation covered by PC Magazine. From the article: "Now, when you query Google Local (local.google.com), a map pops up, displaying the many businesses and services that match you query. If you search on "Pizza in San Francisco," for instance, it displays a map of San Francisco sprinkled with red tabs pointing to various pizza parlors. It also lists each restaurant down the right side of your browser."
With all those links to Google in the summary I think it's about to see it's first slashdotting.
Am I the only one who thought Google was mapping college graduates, density maps of different degrees and fields, and other related things such as that?
Bring On Google Maps with Taged location info, FOR OTHER PLANETS :)
XML - A clever joke would be here if
I get White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. Is this like the satellite maps where some entries can be ten years old?
I found 50 BS, 25 Masters and 5 PhDs within one block!
I went to the local Google maps and typed in al qaeda, terrorist, criminal, shifty, greedy and etc... Everytime it pointed to places in Kansas. I even typed in Osama Bin Laden and guess where it showed him at... You guessed it Kansas!
See all that money spent on Intel work and all we really need to do to track down all the badness in the world is use Google maps.
News Reporters Make Tasty Polar Bear Treats!
Not only awkward, but an invasion of privacy! Why is Google mapping graduates? Just because some gets a degree gives Google the right to track them?!? :)
Download my free songs!
Google maps now that you graduated I have one word...........
Plastics!
"(I) have this unfortunate condition that causes me not to believe a single thing any politician says when a mic's on.
Damn, I wish this feature had been around when I was single.
Searches like this would have been SO much easier.
Planning a night out with the sales staff would have been a snap.
Now all they need is a button to plot a course from your home, to the chain of clubs for the night on the town.
Of course if this one were to actually work, dating in my "Sowing my Wild Oats" days would have been just as easy.
Again, the ability to map a course would be useful.
Google, all you need to be a 21st century digital player.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
Open letter to google
Deer Mr/Mrs/It. MoneyBags.
We the slashdot community kindly demand er request that you convert Google Client Applications (Including but not limmited to) The Value Added Web Fronted devices such as google earth to Java2.0 or Jython (though other truely platform indpendent code may be considered) for the plainly obvious reasons of-
Your a KFA web company-
Java 2.0 and better doesn't suck.
You don't have to horse around with purely windows cruff
You can ignore the whiny OSX/Linux/BSD/BEOS/AMIGA/whateeverelese zealots
Please make sure it's reel Java-
We advocate for using Swing libraries.
-Yours truly
Angry frustrated slashdot people that want to blow up their machine with GoogleEarth/Planet/Solarsystem and Universe
P.S.
When please purchase Amazon,Project Gootenberg, Wiki, and Broadcom
Wiki cause you and them would rock, Amazon cause they're getting lazy, and Broadcom cause they suck.
Thank you,
Somenerd
Apparently, those savages in Austrailia don't have roads.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Your search for pub near Dublin Ireland did not match any locations.
The joke is not that Google Maps chose the tunnel, but rather that Google Maps found a route to JFK from Manhattan that takes only 29 minutes.