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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 ronadams · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sure thing: Yahoo users discuss and test anti-troll measures.

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  2. Re:googlewank by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why are you surprised?

    Microsoft and Google are the two biggest tech companies out there, so it's only natural that most of the stories on Slashdot will be about one of them.

    And then the rest are the odd Linux and Sci-Fi story thrown in, and a smattering of left-wing politics stories. Oh, and some long rambling commentary from Bennett Haselton about spam or something.

  3. Ironic by WegianWarrior · · Score: 3, Funny

    News on Google, reported by Yahoo...

    Irony, thy name is Internet.

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  4. Google Mapplets, Unite! by wombert · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do they form the shape of a large robot and fight evil?

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