Jan

20th 2007

Google Maps Australia now has its own domain

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Google Maps AustraliaAustralia has joined the list of countries (as well as the planet mars and the moon) that have their own domain for Google Maps.  Users can now search for Autralian locations at the URL http://maps.google.com.au/ without having to enter “Australia” to either narrow or find the geographic location. 

Dec

29th 2006

Uh, Sidney’s not in Australia

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Tobi Gutt, a 21 year old German tourist made an 8000+ mile typo when he went on the Internet to book a flight to Australia to spend a four week vacation with his girlfriend.  A sense that something was wrong tickled the traveler when he boarded the flight to the United States but it wasn’t enough to stop him from flying all the way to chilly Montana in his light summer clothes.  Gutt told German magazine Bild, “I did wonder but I didn’t want to say anything, I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the US.”  It wasn’t until he was about to board a commuter plane to Sidney did it finally occur to Gutt that he might be on the wrong path.  His family back home in Germany sent him the 600 Euros needed to buy a ticket to continue on to the correct destination of Sydney, Australia.