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Google Fined $660,000 For Offering Free Maps In France

Google who has a slew of different products and services, was ordered by a french court to pay $660,000 in damages to a French mapping company that claimed they were stifling competition by offering Google Maps for ... continue

Google Contractors Maliciously Tamper Competitor’s Data, Fired Immediately

There's always a few bad apples out of a bunch of good ones. According to OpenStreetMap, an open source mapping project that is a direct competitor with Google Maps, user accounts that were attached to Google Internet ... continue

‘One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor,’ Warns Google Maps

Google loves putting little hidden gems into its products. Earlier this week it was revealed that typing in "Let it snow" into Google search created a blizzard on your computer screen. Google can also provide you with ... continue

McRib Makes Another Limited Time Appearance, Time For Fans to Get Your Pork On

In the intervening year since the last appearance of McDonald's McRib sandwich, I will cop to having succumbed to trying a late night McRib after decades of wondering what they were all about. It was glorious! Rapturous! A ... continue

Osama bin Laden’s Hideout On Google Maps [Pic]

Osama bin Laden's hideout has already been tagged on Google Maps, making it a whole lot easier to find for anyone looking. Too bad the U.S. Special Forces team couldn't just type in "Osama bin Laden's Compound" when ... continue

Google Maps For Android: Real-Time Traffic Rerouting Now Available

My favorite game to watch in 2010 was the one in which Google drove down the stock of GPS manufacturers such as Garmin and TomTom. Google managed that rather easy goal by first giving away Google Maps ... continue

Google Maps Bel-Airing only works once…

Far less likely to get you lost than most directions that come from Google Maps. [Team Sandwich] continue

MP says Google Maps reveals location of secret UK domestic violence shelter

Google Maps can come in handy if you need relatively precise directions or information on a business. But as the service improves with expanded details on businesses globally, a British Member of Parliament raises an interesting point about ... continue

Have you spotted the elusive McRib in the wild? The McRib Locator can help you

It's like the second coming of Christ- scantly meaty, mass-produced and available for a limited time Christ. To be honest, I have never consumed one of the famed McRib sandwiches available at McDonald's just infrequently enough that people ... continue

Woman sues Google Maps after she is hit by a car

Although Google Maps is pretty much the universal "ghetto GPS," frequent users know that the directions given are not always the most reliable. While they will usually get you where you're going in the end, sometimes a portion ... continue

Wayfinder Feels The Google Effect, Closes Doors

Vodafone back in January 2009 thought £20 million ($30 million) to buy Swedish mapmaker Wayfinder was a steal, fast forward to the companies closing this month and it shows just how quickly a tech company can ... continue

Spammers hitting us through Google Maps emails

I haven't seen this vector for spam before so excuse me if this isn't something new but it is for me. I just got both these emails not 5 minutes ago and as you can see below ... continue

Google to brand 100,000 “favorite places” with window barcodes

Google is grabbing headlines left, right and center today with a bunch of new Googley stuff announced. In addition to real time results and a new visual search feature, Google is (snail) mailing a bunch of barcodes to ... continue

Google Maps Navigation Gets Back Ported To Android 1.6

Technology companies typically need to move forward in order to stay ahead of the competition, however in the case of Google Maps Navigation for Google Android, the search giant actually moved in the opposite direction, back porting ... continue

Google’s challenge to mapmaker exclusivity is a good thing

A lot of folks might give Google flack over its 800 pound gorilla status whenever it enters into a new arena, myself included, but there are times where the company's stature does do some good. Such as ... continue

Tell the World where You Had Sex – IJustMadeLove.com

The new website lets you tell the World when, where and in which position you just had sexual intercourse. The Polish company SharQ sp. z o.o. based IJustMadeLove.com on Google Maps. You start out overlooking the world. ... continue

Cool idea, it just sucks that it is based on murder

Google Map mash-ups, there’s all kinds of them. Some are mundane while others can be really interesting. In the latter would fall this mashup from The New York Times where they mash together a ... continue

Google Maps Suggests Kayaking Across the Pacific Ocean

When getting directions to go from New York to Japan, Google suggests making your way across America to Washington state and then Kayaking across the Pacific ocean, with a brief stop and short portage across one of ... continue

Google Maps Gaining on MapQuest

Google Maps is creeping closer to MapQuest in traffic, some newly released analysis suggests. Hitwise found Google Maps actually caught up with MapQuest for a short time in late December. MapQuest somehow regained its momentum, though, and has ... continue