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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: June 21, 2005
- Total Downloads: 7,830
- Downloads last week: 13
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 4 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Its scope may be narrow, but this simple freeware program offers a host of shortcuts for accessing Google maps. It will take you longer to say its lengthy name, Google Maps for Internet Explorer & Windows, than it will for you to use the software to open the Google Maps home page. Desktop and Quick Launch shortcuts are optional when you install, but these and the links in the program's Start menu folder are all just links that open the Google Maps Web site. You'll also find a tiny icon on your IE Explorer toolbar that takes you there. The most impressive of the shortcuts, however, appears on the context menu when you highlight an address in Internet Explorer. You'll see a Google Map option that will take you directly to the location's map. There's no dedicated interface for the program, no user settings, and no help file, but the program is totally self-explanatory. Though the publishers aren't affiliated with Google, they've developed a nice package of shortcuts for those users who frequently use the popular site.Publisher's description
From Buster Collings :Right click a street address or location from your Internet Explorer browser and go directly to Google Maps. It also adds a shortcut button to your Internet Explorer toolbar, a quick launch button to your Windows task bar and a shortcut on your desktop.
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Version: Google Maps for Internet Explorer & Windows 1
"have not used enough to have opion"
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Google Maps for Internet Explorer & Windows 1
"USA only ... the world is slightly bigger."
Pros: Um, sounds like a good idea if it worked for people outside the USA ... oh, and it's free :-)
Cons: Great idea, I think. But there's no way to configure it for International users, such as the UK ... it seems the programmers from Texas think the world is as big as the USA only. Two thumbs DOWN!
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Google Maps for Internet Explorer & Windows 1
"Google maps is awesome and these shortcuts make it better."
Pros: I like the fact that I can get to google maps with the click of one prominent button on my browsers toolbar. I don't have to type in the full web address or use a menu option under my favorites menu.
Cons: Sometimes highlighting and right clicking doesn't work.
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