Google Maps Gone Wild!

Google Maps and Local Search go live in Brazil. Amazing.
Example: "Google near Belo Horizonte" showing user provided content (blue pinpoint) for the Google office.
Another example "pizza near the campus da UFMG" :

Google Maps now provides the amazing ability to do recursively refined queries. This means you can query for a business located near something else, for example.
"sushi near the Empire State Building, New York"
Example: "hotels near Keeneland, Lexington, KY" (the racetrack)...

Google Maps has started mixing official Local Search results with User Contributed content, in this case, KML files. KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is an emerging standard for encoding geo-spatial data. Google Maps now displays user provided KML files...

Google Maps has launched in three new countries: Singapore, South Africa, and Ireland. In addition, the Google Local Business Center (LBC) is also available in those countries to allow local business owners to register in these countries.
Note that the accuracy in these countries is somewhat less than in other Google Maps areas as indicated by the floating circle instead of a red stick pin. Still, very impressive...