Google decided to intriduce Google Shared Stuff profiles into Google Maps. User who decide to share a map they have created (viewed), can now have information from their Google Shared Stuff profile shown together with the map (for example, the user’s picture appears with the map). This adds the personal touch to Google Map sharing, and since it’s integrated with a whole lot more through the Shared Stuff profile, we could say Google Maps are now Social Google Maps.

Here is a video explaining the new addition to Google Maps:

Google has already entered the social networking playground with opening in a big way in early November 2007. This is another move that clearly reveals the path towards a new social Google dimension. Is Google Search somewhere at the end of the social network evolution for Google? I wonder what Google search results would look like then.

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