Google maps!

Tue Feb 8 11:18:21 2005 EST (-0500 GMT)

Now Google officially can do everything Yahoo! can do, and do it better!

Google just launched a beta of it’s Google Maps site. You can drag around the map with your mouse! No more clicking on stupid arrows to find out what you’re looking for isn’t over there. You’ll also notice in the image below that Markham appears before St.Catharines does, must be the 200+ population in the ‘town’ of Markham versus the 60+ in St. Catharines.

Google Map

Only time will tell what it’s results are like, but here’s hoping.

Like always, I learnt this from Slashdot, but what I really wanted to share is this person’s post:

Re:Google will never stop… (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 08, @08:07 (#11605396)

Thats nothing. Try this on for size:

I don’t know how long it will be before someone at MSN notices that a whole lot of people are interested in this trip; this has appeared on many newsgroups already.

  1. mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx
  2. Plan a trip from Haugesund, Norway to Trondheim, Norway
  3. Laugh

I followed his instructions for you:

Crzy MSN Map

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