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GOOGLE OFFERS LIVE TRAFFIC MAPS ON CELL PHONES

Google said on Tuesday that the company has begun offering mobile phone users in more than 30 major US cities the capacity to view highway maps with 'live' traffic data.
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Google maps will also link with gps location to be able to help guide you from your cell phone. Quite a cool new feature if you ask me. If you have a gps locator, say from garmin, you can also link with google maps to help you find your way via satellite communications. Google maps can thus help you find your way out of the woods! Google is every where!

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Google's April Fools' Pokemon challenge

Google has kicked off the tech world's annual round of April Fools' Day gags with a Pokemon Challenge. Ref. Source 4

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Google Maps sorry for racial slur search that leads to White House

Typing a combination of a racial slur and the word 'house' into Google Maps is pulling up 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. For some users. Ref. Source 5z

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Pinning down fraudulent business listings on Google maps

A partnership between academic computer scientists and Google has allowed the search giant to reduce by 70 percent fraudulent business listings in Google Maps. The researchers worked together to analyze more than 100,000 fraudulent listings to determine how scammers had been able to avoid detection -- albeit for a limited amount of time -- and how they made money. Ref. Source 5c.

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Brazen ‘UFO’ captured on Google Maps. An eagle-eyed Google Maps user has reported a “UFO sighting” in broad daylight, just outside the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. Source 5w.

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From the moment I saw it I though that's a butterfly. Further proof that people will see what they want to see no matter how much it points to something more logical.