John,

I've used Craig Boyds solution, which utilizes Bing instead of google using a JSON class. On the plus side, your results come back to VFP - something that a ShellExecute solution can't offer. Worth a look see anyway:

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/spsblog/2008/11/27/VirtualEarthClassLibraryForVisualFoxPro.aspx