Hawaii comes to Google Street View
Google has announced that they are now covering all the states in the USA in their Google Street View.
The company has just added visuals from Hawaii which helped them to reach this milestone.
Google Street View now has imagery from Oahu and Maui.
They are working on expanding [...]

Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland now on Google Street View
Google Maps team has announced that they have launched Street View feature in a couple of new countries.
These new locations are: Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland.
Google has also now made available more special interest regions on the Street View service including:
Thunderhill Raceway Park
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Also added [...]

Google Search results now feature photos of places from Google Maps
Google has revealed that they have added a new feature on their primary search engine service.
Google Search would now display pictures from the photograph layers from Google Maps if the user searches for any geographic location like a city.
Web users would be able to [...]

Google Maps Ad Unit launched
Google has announced the launch of their Google Maps Ad Unit.
This new advertising service would enable developers to make money from the mashups created using Google Maps service through Google Maps API.
This new service is an opt-in setting and it overlays advertisements powered by Google AdSense over embedded maps [...]

Google reshooting Street View pictures in Japan
US based search engine giant Google has revealed that they are going to reshoot photos in Japan for their Street View service.
They decided to reshoot all the photos after complaints raised by Japanese authorities about invasion of privacy.
Google said that the photos would now be taken at a lower [...]

Google Maps now more popular than MapQuest
Google has conquered yet another online segment with their Google Maps service.
Hitwise has reported that Google Maps now receive more hits compared to MapQuest.
The report however admitted that web users spend more time on MapQuest. This is likely to be connected to user unfriendliness of the MapQuest [...]

Google Street View now in UK
US based search engine giant Google has launched its Street View service in UK.
They are covering regions in as many as 25 cities in Britain including Aberdeen and Southampton.
Google also launched the Street View service in Netherlands.
Google claims that they are already covering 22,369 miles of [...]

Google Street View now feature user submitted photos
Search engine giant Google has further enhanced the usability of their Google Street View feature by adding support for user submitted photos.
This service use the photos uploaded by regular users through Google-owned Panoramio.
Google spoke about this new enhancements: “Now you can browse user-contributed photos that have been [...]

Google Street View criticized in Japan over privacy issues
Google Street View feature is being criticized in Japan over privacy issues.
A group of Japanese journalists, professors and lawyers have demanded that Google should remove the images taken on the roads in the various cities in the country.
The search engine giant is currently providing images from [...]

Google helping US voter through widgets and tools
The presidential elections in the USA are just days away and Google has launched a couple of tools to enable the web user to find out the places to register and cast their votes.
The first is the Google’s US Voter Info website which is a module loaded over [...]