And in even more Google-ish kind of news (which is kind of stale  – but, still interesting to me), did you know that Google Maps is crowdsourcing its dirty work?  That is, to get pictures of stores listed on Google Maps, and some basic information therein (what time it opens etc), its relying on people to input that information for them.   Its funny (ironic funny, not ha-ha funny) how Google built itself a 150B market cap based on algorithms and mathematics, but finds that the most cost effective way of filling in data points for its Google Maps is paying folks to fill it in for them a la mechanical turk.  Although unlike Amazon’s MT, it seems like Google is paying a little more … up to $10 per business more.  In the fight for hyper-local search, I think this is a good thing.  And not a little wiley as well, as getting local businesses to confirm their position and information on Google will no doubt *also* get a proportion of them to sign up with Google Adwords.  [tip: business2]