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Yahoo Map Engineers Prank Google
pete314 writes "Yahoo engineers apparently couldn't help themselves, and Yahoo Maps had a great prank on the folks at Google. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed 'The Dude's Fish Store' at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA. The address is better known as the headquarters for Yahoo's competitor Google." From the post: "The phone number listed is for guy named Ruben Suterwitz (or that's what it sounds like on his voicemail). His voicemail gives the option to get assistance, forwarding callers to the Google front desk. There are several hints pointing to a Google prank. The search engine's co-founder Sergey Brin was born in Russia and both he and his buddy Larry Page were students at Stanford when they founded the company. "
Forget about the pranks; it's the new Maps APIs that deserve attention. Not only can you create JavaScript/Ajax maps like with the Google API, but you can also embed Flash maps in your pages or even your own Flash applications. And there's a free geocoder.
Rasmus Lerdorf has a handy tutorial on using this stuff with PHP.
No need to search, just check out their website!
Not the one i was looking for but it seems they have better fish than their competitors. And i cite the web: "We have better fish than our competitors"
//WR
That was Microsoft erasing Apple HQ/ 1856220&tid=133&tid=109&tid=1&tid=3
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/25
if you view the header image alone you'll find its got a huge resolution of 1498 x 925 pixels
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:D
http://ca.local.yahoo.biz/thedudesfishstore/chees
now i know what i'll use as wallpaper for the next week
*mmm yummy*
root@127.0.0.1
They didn't erase it, the photos are just from before the Cupertino campus was built. Note the dirt and whatnot.
-Eric Smith
Just thought I'd mention that the new Flash virtual machine coming out in a few months time is about 5-10X faster by Macromedia's claims, and these claims have been backed up by users of the public alpha (myself included). The days of Flash killing your CPU cycles may soon be history.
Heh. I'm surprised to see it but glad there's some friendly joking going on from Yahoo towards Google.
Also from the website (about section): "We've been around forever and will never get out of business.", "We have all kinds of fish.", "Our fish NEVER die!" (Ballmer related?).