The cartoon is compliments of:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/erp/article.php/11072_3693956_5
The You Tube video which promotes Google maps is extremely cheesy! I have friends whom are advocates of other Google products like G-mail and Google docs. I try to avoid Google as a search engine and I constantly suggest to others that there are a variety search engines, as well as directory alternatives.
It's interesting that just today (September 2) an article in The Age, New Google browser muscles in on Microsoft declared that Google is spreading its wings in an effort to attain a greater IT market share. The new free browser called Chrome will be available for download in more than one hundred nations and it will function on Microsoft's Windows operating system.
I get some pleasure from Google maps. However, I have really enjoyed monitoring controversy related to the Australian launch of the street view mapping tool. The function became available in early August 2008 and permits "people [to] explore the country at ground level for the first time with little more than a computer and an internet connection". Google has introduced the positive step of obscuring vehicle number plates and the faces of people. Potentially invasive images can also be reported directly to Google. Privacy activists are still up in arms though. Very early on, the visible imagery in Australia revealed a lying neighbour, identified a cheating spouse; and snapped a man sleeping on the job!
My first preference with regard to on-line mapping tools is Travel Mate's map maker: http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp However, this is powered by Google maps too! Travel mate provides really concise directions, distances between two points of interest; and other information, similarly to Google. I'll probably intermittently utilise Google too.
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