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Internet search phenomenon Google has overtaken a swathe of venerable rivals to become the world's biggest media company by stock market value.
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Some analysts believe Google's shares are now overpriced, a rerun of the heady valuations seen during the internet boom of the late 1990s.
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 Initially, Google got 10,000 queries per day compared with 200 million today.
Read more HERE  at BBC news

Let's have a look at what some smart guys are developing using Google Maps...

Google Maps is Google's latest product offering which provides a super cool mapping application for US street maps, driving directions, and local search.

• Foundcity is a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. Using your mobile phone, you "tag" or capture photos throughout the day, label them with any words you want, and send them to your map. At home, you access and customize your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly. As a visitor to the Foundcity site, you view a map of all tags and connect with the people and places that share your interests. By plugging in to the network of Foundcity users, you learn what others value in the city as you surf their hotspots. By publishing your own tags, you share what you know about your city. http://www.foundcity.net/
• Central London Traffic Cameras, http://www.gmaptrack.com/map/locations/24/44
• This resource enables users of the popular Craigslist database to visualize and map the results of their search for available housing and rental properties http://www.housingmaps.com/
• A freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago. http://www.chicagocrime.org
• Traffic: an example of interoperablity with Yahoo weservices: Traffic data by Yahoo!, icons by Yahoo, maps by Google http://traffic.poly9.com or http://supergreg.hopto.org/google-traffic.com/
• UPS Package Tracking with Google Maps http://www.thrall.net/maps/upstracking.html
• Boston Subway Station Map http://www.thrall.net/maps/mbta.html
• Hotel search and booking capabilities worldwide: http://reservemy.com
• Searching the best deal on Gas in USA? http://www.ahding.com/cheapgas
• Locate a movie theater and map it's location in USA? http://www.ahding.com/movie
• Large inventory database of U.S. Police - Fire - 911 Incidents: http://www.incidentlog.com
• Florida Sexual Predators: http://www.floridasexualpredator.com
• Google Map links for Unesco World Heritage Sites: http://www.templetons.com/brad/unesco
• Vancouver Tourist Map: http://www.williamsweekly.com/gmap2.html
• Where do you want to eat? http://www.toeat.com
• Your Ancestors on a Google Map: http://www.mapyourancestors.com
• Track visitors to your website: http://www.gvisit.com
• Bookmarklet to create a walking tour of an area: http://www.gnik.com/maps/google
• Pedometer: http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer
• How congested a local EVDO wireless broadband network is: http://wifi-hotspot.wirelessinternetcoverage.com
• gCensus: http://gcensus.com/index.php
• NYC Subway stops: http://monkeyhomes.com/map/nycsubway.php
• Real time weather information on a map: http://www.weatherbonk.com/weather/index.jsp
• UFO get also caught? http://simplyted.blogspot.com/2005/05/google-maps-show-apparent-ufos.html
• Company bought by Google Inc.: http://www.dodgeball.com

And the list go on....

• Chating rooms: This example demonstrates bi-directional messaging between heterogeneous (Flash and AJAX) clients and WebORB Message Server. The server performs additional processing to geolocate chat users, injects necessary information in messages so users can plotted on the map.
• Weather Bond: Weather Bonk lets you view real time weather information on a map. This can provide some very interesting information, particularly in areas with microclimates, such as San Francisco.
  The Interface do not only look great, but informations displayed as layer are really fantastics since it use also many sources: national weather services. Weather Underground, Weather Bug, Citizen Weather Observer Program, and National Weather Service. look at the About.