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.'"

Comments

CYBERSTALK!

[ayf6]

Now i can cyberstalk for real!

Googleing for people!

[Kenja]

So once we get our government mandated RFID tag installed you'll be able to google for a person and see there location on a satellite map!

This is of course..... not true.

Expedia, Travelocity, Priceline, etc = in Trouble

[Gary Destruction]

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.

Mission Statement

[TheJavaGuy]

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.

I can see it now...

[Saint Aardvark]

Millions of queries out of Maryland...

http://maps.google.com/q=nuclear+OR+Cbiological+OR +chemical+weapons+-usa+-china%+-uk&sourceid=mozill a-search

Re:Bad planning?

[Dachannien]

Judging from the uptick this morning, investors either disagree or just don't care.... Long live the Internet bubble!

In other news....

[System.out.println()]

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.

You read it here first.

Re:No Mac version

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

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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listening to my iPod now, my PC shipped yesterday Thanks!

Re:Who's going to register this domain?

[Otter]

Fortunately, I'm now halfway through a marketing course and can inform you that the ideal name for this business is:

Geyhole

On this map...

[jaguar5150]

"X" Marks the gSpot

Re:Google Maps?

[justforaday]

...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"???

Re:Bad planning?

[Mattintosh]

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...

Re:Who's going to register this domain?

[owlstead]

No, you've retained too little from the owners name. As you might know, the new owner wants to put a stamp on it. Therefore you should use more of the buyers name, such as:

Goohole

Re:Bad planning?

[generic-man]

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.