"Using the Web to do map searches at home is an unnecessary step and complication, " he notes.
They then receive a personalized Web page with news and other information, can look at a Web-based map for directions, and can even order goods online while waiting for their gas to pump.
But clearly they started to see that the mobile web would demand a map-centric approach, which Google has been building for many years.
The state GOP has launched its own Web site, a map that tracks Democratic fundraisers in the state, captioned: Democrat presidential candidates say they won't campaign in Florida, they'll only raise money here.
Another Google-dodging feature in the new browser: Highlighting a street address on a Web page launches a map, with the default set to Microsoft's Live Maps (though you can change this default to Google Maps).
The survey is some 100 times larger than the previous largest map of the web of dark matter, gathered by the Hubble telescope's Cosmic Evolution Survey, or Cosmos.
Whenever you visit a web page with an embedded map ( like this one), chances are overwhelming that the person who created the map used Google to do it.
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To wit, the knowledge graph Google's map of billions of Web objects and concepts, and the billions of relationships among them would be immeasurably handy to Mr. Kurzweil's ambition to recreate human-style pattern recognition, especially as it relates to language, in computers.
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The map on ESRI's Web site, showing driving directions to its headquarters, is inferior to Google's version of the same.
Along with the search function, which encompasses Web, news image, video and map content, like Google , the site hosts job listings and professional profiles.
Along with the search function, which encompasses Web, news image, video and map content, like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), the site hosts job listings and professional profiles.
Already, it boasts mashups from Microsoft's Virtual Earth map service on Marriot's Web site.
The group then verifies the incoming reports and places them on a Google map of Egypt, creating a web-based documentation of the extent of the problem.
Instead of another endless vertical list, mind-mapping organizes concepts and tasks in a colorful web that looks a bit like a public transit map.
Anyone can leave an audio note about an attraction and pin it on an online map that's shared for playback via web or smartphone.
If Home is successful, it is conceivable that Facebook, even more than the other companies, will be able to extensively map your social activities to your communications, web browsing, app use and physical activities.
But then last November Stock had a breakthrough: A Sand Hill Road venture firm (which didn't end up investing in Zvents) asked him to map out the events being submitted on Zvents' Web site.
"In building its map application, Google made use of a new way of programming Web applications, " said Benfield.
The device won't let you make voice calls or surf the Web, but it does offer a host of safety features: It can map a bread-crumb trail of your coordinates so that people back home can track your whereabouts from any Web browser.
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Google in June launched Map Maker, a service that lets people upload location data to its Web site.
These novel products are called mashups, a marriage of bits of two or more Web sites to create a third product: a directory of pizzerias on a neighborhood map, for example, to show where the nearest deep-dish resides.
"I do not want to be a UEFA president who, during his term of office, sees prestigious clubs that form part of our sport's heritage disappear from the football map due to bankruptcy, " he said on UEFA's official Web site.
It was web conferencing, or the ability to demonstrate products remotely that put inside sales on the map.
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There's a new documentary film, Web sites devoted to the roots of hip-hop, and there's even a map of key spots in the neighborhood's musical past.
You can now also connect them to your smartphone via Bluetooth so the Garmin Connect Mobile app can add some additional features, including live web tracking if you know anyone that wants to watch you two-wheeling around a 2D map.
As Cook helpfully pointed out, you can put a different map app (or in the case of Google or Nokia, a shortcut to their web apps) on your home screen.
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Thanks to creative destruction, productivity has taken off in ways hard to measure but clear to anyone who surfs the Web for news or browses the global markets for merchandise from places that two generations ago were barely on the map.
One Web site, www.scipionus.com, is combating the confusion by encouraging users to annotate a Google Map of New Orleans with information about specific locations.
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