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<<This map of lawsuits faced by Google shows just what comes with video-sharing sites, street mapping services and internet search.

Competitive analysis firm Aqute Intelligence are behind the map, referencing each litigation placemark to a news article.

The Aqute research director, James Macaonghus, explains the motives behind the map: "We created this map a couple of weeks ago. There's a few countries where the services have been blocked so they're blank.

"The point we're trying to make is that as Google gets more powerful it's coming up against more legislature and they've got a lot of balls to juggle at the same time. We'll update on a regular basis and keep up as long as the issues keep arising."

Of course, the map does not take into account investigations by information officers in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Canada, the Czech Republic and Italy. And it should be remembered that legal action is par for the course for most multinational technology giants.>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jul/29/google-lawsuits-map