Down with Mapquest

Hands down, Google is one of the top three best things to ever happen to the internet. Obviously, porn is number one. The coolest thing about Google is they are always adding more awesome, free tools and services for us to use. Witness: Picasa, Toolbar, Desktop Search, Froogle, Image search, and on and on and on...

Well, it is time to add to the list Google Maps. I've been using it for a couple of months now and I can't get enough. It's still in Beta, but man, Mapquest who? The aesthetic appeal alone should convince you to jump ship join the Google Map love.

Why would you want to look at this:



When you could look at this:



The curves on that Google Map make me want to do naughty naughty things.

PLUS, Google Maps lets you click on an area of the map and drag the entire map across the screen, like the little hand grabber thing lets you do in Adobe Acrobat Reader. This feature alone is worth its weight in gold. It's as intuitive as scratching your balls, and almost as much fun.

DOUBLE PLUS, you can use search words like "in" or "near" to identify types of places in a certain area. For example, searching for "starbucks in austin" will flag starbucks locations on a map of austin. Try "chinese food near friendswood, tx" and get random chinese places in the vicinity that you never even knew existed. So rock and roll, it's not even funny.

HOLY SHIT I NEVER NOTICED THIS BUT I JUST FOUND IT: you can even switch from looking at the map to looking at actual satellite images. There's my house!So go tell all your friends, Mapquest sucks, make the switch to Google Maps. Your life will never be the same.