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Google Acquires Keyhole Corp.
telstar writes "As part of their ever-expanding online presence, Google has acquired online map provider Keyhole Corp.. Keyhole's technology allows users to perform virtual flyovers of satellite imagery of the earth's surface. The immediate impact of this acquisition is a price drop in Keyhole's service charge. Beyond that, Google does 'not have any announced plans regarding how this technology will integrate with our current products and services.'"
Now i can cyberstalk for real!
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This is of course..... not true.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Not even William Shatner and Leonard Nemoy can save Priceline from this move. Not only will you be able to name your own price on hotels and airfare, you'll be able to take a virtual walk down the street to the hotel. And you'll see William Shatner inside fighting Leonard Nemoy to get his "job" back. Then google have Scotty beam them up.
This is very much in line with google's mission statement.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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http://maps.google.com/q=nuclear+OR+Cbiological+OR +chemical+weapons+-usa+-china%+-uk&sourceid=mozill a-search
Carousel is a lie!
Judging from the uptick this morning, investors either disagree or just don't care.... Long live the Internet bubble!
In other news, The NYT have picked up on a story from Slashdot with "undeniable proof" that Google is planning to use RFID tags to take satellite photos of people.
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Screw that. If it doesn't readily work on OS X or through X11... I'm out.
<google> Dang, there goes an entire percent of our market! I guess we'll just have to be happy with the 99% that's left running windows.</google>
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With its neverending quest to be able to search everything and anything, perhaphs you'll be able to search the surface of the earth for things in the future through google.
... to heu, North Korea?
Like WMDs?
Mr. Google please help find direction from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
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Well, if any of you Earthlings can use the combined might of Google and Keyhole to find any signs of intelligent life on Earth, please contact our Mothership, because we've given up looking.
Sincerely,
The Greys.
...perhaphs you'll be able to search the surface of the earth for things in the future through google.
Oooooh! Y'mean like "where will I be at 10:45am tomorrow"???
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
If there's one thing I've learned from cartoons, it's that the wisest move is always to announce your plans to at least someone who might be able to stop them, if not the whole world.
Mua-ha-ha...
Keyhole will be renamed "Google Keyhole [BETA]." The entire application will be rewritten in JavaScript and will only work with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox 1.1preview4b(v) with Google Keyhole [BETA] extension installed.
Slashdot will run at least four front-page stories on the subject (including "Google Acquires Keyhole Corp." and tomorrow's "Google Aquires Keyhole Corpany"). Comments will range from "This is cool" to "This sucks" to "Well it's BETA, what do you expect."
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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OK, so we start with a wearable computer. Stuff an NVidia in it. Get a chord type keyboard that's wearable. Display in glasses or the cool new lasers that draw on your retina. GPS jacked into computer. Keyhole maps.
I can finally type 'whereami' and find out!
This is all doable with current technology...
If only it worked in Linux...