Plus, there appears to be an entirely new country above Italy.

too much time on his hands!

Way to much.

Frikkin anorak.

Iceland has developed the power of speech.

The guy on the left is clearly stuck in the 80's, doing the robot.

The straights of gibraltar have silted up, which will cause the med to evaporate, presumably why italy has grown a knee.

Greenland has a 'zip-up sea', a new feature by Slarti Bartvarst (sp?) up for a planet design award this year.

It's obvious google are going to sell off our planet once they've done photographing the main sights for intergalactic oil-magnates and leave us with a cheap knock-off planet.

You couldn't make it up.

...tracking Mr Hitler Jr's web surfing habits.

Paris - because she's probably in on it too, being of German origin an' all

It looks like Denmark belongs to Germany too. Some of the Countries That Used To Be The USSR seem to be correct, but where are the borders within the UK? And why is the Yorkshire Bordern not marked.

Daggers at Dawn, Google. Hope you've got good defences.

The southern part is completely drowned!

That can only mean one thing: It is a map received from the future, after the eruption of someplace like Santorin or so, taking with it a sizeable chunk of Hellas.

Obviously, if Google knows as much about the future development of Europe, they also know what people will be looking for in a browser 10 years from now.

I.f.o.w.o.n. Google-eyed, devining overlords.

...not to mention that Italy has been gratified with an impressive couple of Bulgarian airbags

my favorite is the one on page-4 where it says "We're applying the same kind of process isolation you find in modern operating systems" - Like err, address spaces in the 1970's mainframe systems. Just because Windows was borked doesn't mean everything else is... but then if Google says its true, it must be. So how radical is the concept of running tabs as processes and freeing up all the memory when you close a tab... not very, just another old concept applied obviously, patents anyone?

Oh yeah, and I remember around 1985 when the VM/SP pubs team first used cartoons to explain topics in some of the VM/SP manuals, so even thats not new google. Still nice to see the youngsters re-invent the old, maybe next up will be google coke, if you put a dirty penny in it, it cleans it... Wow.

Having said that, I'll be trying out Google Chrome, muppet I know. Mines half way up the stairs

... Poland. Because that's where Mike Belshe seems to think Denmark can be found.

There's no oil.

We won't be going to war over it this time.

According to the description, they are pointing out the Greater Danish Empire of the new expanded Denmark, a dramatic change in European geopolitics only brought on by the power of their incredible Javascript engine.

Maybe they are still upset about the legal problems they had in Belgium. :-)

I thought I was English, but it looks like I've been chucked in with them Scots and Welsh peoples.

Bastards.

you'd think someone might have checked on er... google maps?

You've misinterpreted. Plainly, given the caption, the Danes have turned Viking and got their belated revenge on the Germans for the WWII occupation by invading southwards. Lego for all!

Tak!

Americans have no idea whatsoever regarding any geography outside America. In fact most of them don't even know about American geography!

and the "slow news days" with it?

Maybe if you play with the gadget to the left it will update the map in time? Take it up one notch and Poland gets invaded, another one and you'll see Vichy France.

Though from what they're saying it's the Danish Vikings making a push south, they've already taken Slovenia for a bit of Adriatic sea-coast which is surely a better place for a quick dip that the Baltic or North Sea at this (or any other?) time of year.

... a bit like El Reg some days.

Jeez, I actually live in Belgium, and I'm not offended.

Need I say more...

I think you'll find that the entire Benelux region has been annexed by the New Danish People's Republic too!

As well as Austria. The map also appears to have suffered the same problem as the original Euro reference book and Wales has been lost to the sea. Not to mention Scicilly appears to have developed a land-bridge to the continent too...

The one with a spinning globe in the pocket please...

Despite the speech bubble, look at the looming enormous mass of Greenland expanding eastwards towards Europe.

Oh wait. Greenland. Greater Danish Empire. That's it. This Google thing is obviously hiding a MUCH greater agenda.

Jolyon

Weren't the Vikings Norse forced to leave home because Norway has so little arable land?

What with the plains of northern Europe close at hand, the Danes didn't experience the same land pressures.

It might effectively have a land bridge to Gozo.

Thats nice, I hope they get some better beaches from it and a bit more room to relax in as its very densely populated there. Its nice of Google to fund the land reclamation project, perhaps using techniques pioneered by the Dutch?

I generally like the Maltese, they're polite, and don't deserve the hard time they get at US Passport Control, with their Arabic sounding language, dusky mediterranean looks and facial hair.

Nor do their menfolk.

AC as I work for some Maltesers

That's enough to make you want to drive off a cliff.

... correction - "Annexed"

Frankly I'm not sure why anyone is surprised the map is inaccurate, they're Yanks.

I'm suprised they know that Denmark is in Europe, and where Europe is!!!

Greece was returned to Turkey...

Talk about scratching a sore spot, Google!!

I guess it's a good thing they didn't use colour, or that'd be the whole Cyprus can of worms knocking at their door.

Of course, mind you, how many greek techies are there??

(says the Greek techie, feeling all alone...)

Any government, be it Google HQ or Germany, should do better than the sorry lot that's "running" Belgium right now. I say we had it coming!

My coat is the one with the "Belgium is dead" sticker on the back.

gave up on the comic, so the humour that no doubt resides within is lost on me.

after all google may well be impressive, this browser even more so but whichever nit did the pages for that comic apparently forgot how the anchor tag is meant to work and thinks everyone has javascript enabled.

perhaps a swipe by google at all the bods out there that have noscript blocking there analytical scripts?

mines the one made from tin foil...

Danish tourist: "Please stop going on about the war"

Basil: "You started it"

Danish tourist: “We did not start it”

Basil: “Yes you did, you invaded Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands”

what the world will look like after they switch on CERN

It seem to also have Slovenia as well as Deutschschweiz, together with making Vorarlburg and Tyrol an independent state.

Plus, where is Kosovo (if your country recognised it) & Palestinian Territories?

It will get me coat, one with a proper map of Europe.