Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps(techcrunch.com)
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Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/09/google-turns-on-text-ads-in-google-maps/
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Ultimately Google is a for profit company and their business model is built around advertising. I feel Google has aways been quite reasonable in their advertisement placements and their leveraging of google maps advertising is fair enough - the service is free after all and very useful!