Google searches map

Alright now we have another offering from Google. If you ask a Google Exec why they want to do it , I am sure the answer will be " We wanted to get into next level of search by offering map searches". Is there is any application where search is not involved? Hey, I need to search what program is there is TV today, go for Video search . I need to search data on database, wait , this is another area for google labs folk to research on.

Talking about google labs, it seems like Google stock and innovation is attracting lots of Sun, BEA and FireFox SE's to join them. Joshua Bloch ( author of effective Java ) left sun to join google. Couple of Firefox developers joined them recently, Fire Fox lead developer and second developer.

If you want to get technical on Google maps , here is good blog to refer - Mapping Google.

Cheers
Anand