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Google Commerce

Google, has now expanded its online prowess beyond its “Shopping Results”, just in time for the Christmas season. With Google Commerce Search, Google can now pull products from various retailers and e-commerce sites to reduce time spent hunting down specific items while enabling easy comparison.

Google Maps Navigation

Last week saw the introduction of a free turn by turn GPS navigation tool, a certain a game changer in the GPS turn by turn market seeing the stocks of Garmin and TomTom drop more than 20% since the announcement. Available on Google’s mobile OS Android and hopefully coming soon to the iPhone if Apple approves it. With Google’s wealth of information, would we be hearing “Turn left in 15 meters for a special offer on a McDonalds happy meal!”

Google Music Search

Google steps up to challenge iTunes with its new-found music searching capabilities, which will allow you to preview and purchase tracks right from the first page of search results.