Problems Persist for Google

If you Google 'Google Problems' an interesting and varied array of the company's conundrums are returned. One of the foremost among such issues recently has been criticism of the company's Street Maps function. Though people are very impressed with the ability to check out the backyards of local and global neighbors alike, those same people and the governments representing them appear to be less fond of the information Google's camera trucks have been collecting while snapping the street level photos that appear in the application.

While Google has been under fire for some time in regards to information collection, one area that is should perhaps be facing greater scrutiny for is the targeted advertising that appears during various user searches. Though it is sometimes annoying, it is often useful when, for example, an Orbitz logo appears when something like 'cheap flights' is punched in. However, it seems less relevant, at least for the law abiding, to have locksmith ads pop-up when the aforementioned Google Maps function is in use...