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Google launches street view in the UK

Today Google has finally announced that their street view service has launched in the UK.

Image credit: screenshot from Google maps
As reported on the Brand Republic website:
LONDON – Google has launched its Street View service in the UK which offers ground level pictures of streets in 25 cities including London, Belfast, Cardiff, Manchester and Edinburgh.
The Street [...]

Google are starting to monetize mobile maps

It was only going to be a matter of time until sponsored Google mobile maps results would appear.
Today when I was seaching for the Waldorf Hotel in London, the actual location was identified by a Hilton logo on my Google mobile maps screen (it was clearly identified as a sponsored link) and the results page also had [...]