That's pretty cool. It works just fine for me in IE.

It takes forever for the map to update. Is anyone else experiencing that?

For me it's almost instantaneous(nyc, firefox)... though this is very obviously in an extremely nascent stage(only one company shows up): so much so, that its performance so far offers very little clue as to whether it'll sink or swim.

I didn't think about trying it in Firefox. As it turns out, it loads nice and quick in it, just like you said. Wonder why it's only going unbelievably slow in IE, to the point where the window is frozen for 30-60 second.

Just tried IE: not as slow as you(roadrunner cable 6mb)-- maybe 15 sec though, and subsequent clicks, while not as slow, are glacial still.... i do get similar substandard results on IE w/ sites re flash & active X-- even though i have all that + .net scripts, java, etc. allowed-- even popups for that site...everything from macromedia to .net to Windows is fully updated...
this did not use to happen when i used IE regularly up until this year--
I wouldn't be surprised if some key feature got disabled in some recent MS patch without clear advance warning, as happened w/ IE 5.5 sp2 & the initial version 6.
Barring that, then I suspect either IESpyAd, SpywareGuard and/or Spybot Immunize may be interferring-- at any rate, not keen on lowering settings further / disabling stuff in order to sleuth:
besides that time wasted would be the hassle of then removing any pests subsequently picked up with porous IE: this is one issue i don't mind staying ignorant about .

Anyhow, I only have a need to use IE instead of FF for one site: www.forbes.com totally freezes FF, requiring a hard reboot. And once in a great while an online form submittal might be missing a dialog box, requiring a right-click & send link to IE-- but that's it.

I held out & stayed with IE & away from Firefox as long as possible... I think MS owes me/us a Medal of Honor, or at least one for Exceptional Valor displayed in Combat...
Good luck, all the best...

Great for college kids looking for a ride home. Google is going to own the world someday :)

What has google not came up with yet. Its scary, soon there will be no need to vist anyother site. Because google will do it all.

Hey, not visiting any other site works for me!

There are too many doomsayers out therethat the minute some company does GOOD business and draws a lot of attention and customers go on and on about how bad that company is.

I for one love Google and will continue to do so into the forseeable future. They offer excellent products that are free and in most cases more functional then products that cost much more or are super ad intensive (MSN, Yahoo!).

I say GO Google! Give me more free, practical, and greatly functional products.

I echo every single comment here-- what a breath of fresh air for the industry that such a responsible company has been able to amass such power: we will all be so much better off for this-- though of course, time will be one of the final arbiters. I can't think of any other company more worthy or able of wielding such power-- not even close.
Here we have someone both inventing, improving existing technologies, & creating additional value, most importantly in spawning new entrepreneurial off-shoots-- rather than leaving behind a littered road of squashed competitors whose only crime was either inventing something new or possessing a better version of some technology.
Kudos, Google...& hail hail the possible dawning of a new Golden Era!!

Golden era? Hah! If Google can make the price of gas affordable , I might give damn.

It is affordable: adjusted for inflation, it's fairly close to the lowest it's ever been...
Most foreign prices are horrible, though-- my condolences...

The only problem I see is google is spreading themselves thin alot of new idea's but most have no substance or lack features. They are like a bomb waiting to explode. Slow down google get things right on one project before going to the next project.