Google has their own Blog to which they post occasional announcements

People are doing creative things with Google Maps. Known loosely as Google Maps Hacking. Here are some useful and cool links to get your creative juices flowing.

Google News Reader in public release. Aggregate your favorite RSS feeds using your Google login.

Google released some more updates to their mapping software.

Google Maps offers Satellite Views

You can now get satellite imagery at Google Maps. Here’s a very green and mountainous aerial view of the Acme Technologies office.

Google Maps excels over MapQuest and Yahoo! Maps by offering real-time scrolling and updates. Unlike the other services which require you to […]

Preview the ads Google would place on your web pages with this Google AdSense tool. You can also embed it directly into your own pages if you want to let your visitor use it from your site.