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Google is the largest and fastest search engine in the world. Since the rise of Google to success, the company has expanded to include more and more services ranging from Gmail, Google Docs, Maps, Street View, Translate and more.

In their efforts to bring in more services and features, there have been times when people witnessed that the company can become a little too eager –such as the case with Google Buzz where the hasty implementation of the social networking feature and the haphazard way it was tied up to existing Gmail accounts caused many to wonder if the company is losing its touch.

Recently, the Google Street Car became a familiar sight in the UK and many neighboring countries as Google pursued its Street View service implementation. The service provided users with a 360 degree view of all the major streets in the major cities of the world. This data, when combined with GPS technology, provided a unique navigational tool that was very useful for its use of actual images and also provided people with a way to visit distant cities from the comfort of their computers –small business also benefited from the extended exposure of their stores as well.

However, not all has been good. While the street car was taking images, it was also running a program that Google had already scrapped –the mapping of WiFi networks. The street car had been making a log of unsecured WiFi networks and has also managed to capture bits of data. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has already admitted to the problem and has stated that Google is doing everything in its power to delete the 600 GB of information.

Various countries such as Germany and Spain are already investing the data on Google. UK and Ireland on the other hand, have accepted Google’s decision to destroy the data –the action was monitored by a third party to ensure the accuracy of reports.