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Google CEO tweaks Apple and raves about its own maps and travel assets

Dennis Schaal

Photo Caption: Google already makes a lot of money on Google Maps, but is mapping plans to make a bundle more. 

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Larry Page couldn't resist touting Google Maps and sticking a pin in Apple and its maps woes, although the Google co-founder didn't call out Apple by name.

Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page stuck it to Apple a bit during a financial conference call today, characterizing Google Maps as "the most accurate and comprehensive" mapping product in the world, and he predicted that maps will be "a great source of revenue" in the long term. With all of the embarassment that Apple faced with its Apple Maps blunders when iOS 6 debuted and its initial freeze-out of Google Maps as the default mapping option, m

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