Here’s a follow-up up on last week’s report: South Korean police have now filed criminal charges against Google over the collection of personal information via unsecured wifi networks. The data was collected by Street View vehicles in South Korea between October 2009 and May 2010. According to the AP story, police examined the data that [...]

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by Greg Sterling Virtual Earth, which has been somewhat in the shadow of Google Maps and Earth released a large volume of new images for Live Search Maps for a range of countries and cities around the globe. The imagery allows you to get in very close, so you can see how far your hotel [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Wikia Introduces “Evolution” Toolbar To Expand Reach To Other Search Engines Like many before it, most recently Mahalo, Wikia Search has introduced a Firefox toolbar, called “Wikia Evolution,” to expand the site’s [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SearchBiz: Google And The “M-Word,” Mozilla Engineering VP To Facebook, Flickr Founder Criticizes Yahoo & Digg Confirms Google Rumors (Sort Of) The “M-word” has popped up recently several times around Google’s search [...]

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Google Maps (Earth) is far and away the company’s most successful product after search. It is now the second most popular mapping service online (Mapquest still leads) and the most popular mobile mapping tool (Mapquest Mobile is second), according to comScore. Every few months, it seems, Google “tweaks” the service, adding new features here and [...]

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