THE Google empire gets vaster every day. Now it includes a map service at maps.google.com, with search facilities, direction-finders, locations of businesses and so on. Starting with, say, a map of the UK, you can zoom in right down to individual streets, or use the mouse to wander around a town, perhaps pausing to find the local pizza restaurants. Then, zooming back out, you can use the mouse to cross the Atlantic and start exploring the US in the same way.
One thing might strike you as odd, though. If, instead of heading west to the US,…
