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Google to Unite Mapping Mashups

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-you-see-me-now dept.

jihadist writes "Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites."

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  1. Re:googlewank by Teresita · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is why Google is beating Microsuckware, no way would Redmond encourage Windows or Office hacks.

  2. Re:google-what, now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    hilariously tragic
    So, for now, Redmond focuses on the tragically hilarious, e.g. Vista.
  3. Re:Mapquest vs Google Maps by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I still wonder why Mapquest is so much popular as compared to Google Maps.

    Maybe because it's good. Maybe because it was there first. Maybe because not everybody loves Google unconditionally. Maybe because you don't need a satellite image to find directions. I don't know.