Clicking on this hyperlink will lead you to a page which is a mash up of google map with the latest terror happenings around the world in realtime. The map automatically reloads in about 8 minutes. Seems like a lot of bomb threats and other suspicious activities here in the US today.
Google buys a start-up company once every few days.Its impossible to imagine that google was launched only in 1998. The journey has been stratospheric for the company which started as a search engine one and now has branched into different applications.
Among its most recent acquisitions are GrandCentral Communications,an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account and which can be accessed from the web and Postini, a company which offers security and corporate compliance solutions for email, IM, and other web-based communications among other things.Postini was bought for $625 million.
I found an enormous map of Google products from Zorgloob,a French blog,via Google Blogoscoped. Click on the image below and view it on its largest size for a reality check of google's enormous empire.
If you have got something to hide or some sleazy place to go to, beware! Google Maps can catch you in the act of going in or coming out of those secret hideouts and put your view on cyberspace for all to see! See some funny street sightings here.
