Mr Benfield was giving evidence on Tuesday to the Welsh assembly's Public Accounts Committee investigation into grants management.
"In building its map application, Google made use of a new way of programming Web applications, " said Benfield.
Professor Benfield is excited by the potential for further discoveries and revelations from the deep that the Serpent project may bring.
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Dave Benfield, general secretary of Norfolk Police Federation, said it was a move likely to be welcomed by the rank and file.
Benfield thinks online maps will increasingly become the interface for the Web.
Graham Benfield of the Wales Council for Voluntary Action said the resignation of trustees of a body was a "warning sign" of internal problems.
"When you see manefish collected in trawls they are incredibly beat up, they don't look like much of a fish at all, " said Professor Benfield.
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Dave Benfield, general Secretary of Norfolk Police Federation, welcomed the move.
Dr John Twigg, a researcher at the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre of University College, London, says most governments invest in post-disaster response and very little in making people secure.
First, they hear from the Association of British Insurers, Aon Benfield and Marsh Limited about flood funding, and then from European Commission officials including Bernard Van Goethem, Director for Veterinary and International Affairs, DG Health and Consumer, about vaccination of badgers and cattle against bovine TB.
The London Stock Exchange is headlining the law among reasons that foreign firms should list stock in the U.K. instead of the U.S. German carmaker Porsche AG and reinsurer Benfield Group are among those scared away by Sarbanes-Oxley from U.S. listings lately, meaning less business for local exchanges and fewer choices for investors.
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