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."

Comments

Am I the only one...

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Now to fill its spot in the labs

[Lucractius]

Bring On Google Maps with Taged location info, FOR OTHER PLANETS :)

If I input pr0n and Washington DC

[syntap]

I get White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. Is this like the satellite maps where some entries can be ten years old?

This is so useful

[Anonymous Coward]

I found 50 BS, 25 Masters and 5 PhDs within one block!

Everything Bad Is In Kansas!!!

[Evil W1zard]

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.

invasion of privacy

[geeber]

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?!? :)

one word for you

[splatter]

Google maps now that you graduated I have one word...........

Plastics!

Found some cool clubs

[doublem]

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.

Re:Found some cool clubs

[ArsonSmith]

And if all else fails there is always here

Re:Found some cool clubs

[doublem]

I guess Google knows something about Harvard that I don't.

Graduate my ass! (Maybe from a USAian HS).

[Thud457]

Apparently, those savages in Austrailia don't have roads.

Re:Graduate my ass! (Maybe from a USAian HS).

[mjm1231]

Actually, you can click on Satellite and zoom in and see some things which look like roads. But they could be dried riverbeds from when the region once had water. Perhaps a manned expedition or some sort of "Australian Lander" will one day reveal the truth.

Total crap...

[cordsie]

>pub Dublin, Ireland

Your search for pub near Dublin Ireland did not match any locations.