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

Network performance

[j. andrew rogers]

If the most you've ever gotten is 36k, the reason is that your network connection is poor.

Their networks are fiber connected at the core on a high-performance ring from Neopolitan Networks, so there is no shortage of capacity on their end. That network can handle an order of magnitude more bandwidth than is used to drive Keyhole without even breaking a sweat. I'm also on Neopolitan's network, and Keyhole performance is great. I suspect the bottleneck is closer to your end.

All that's Left is eBay

[Kones]

If they purchase eBay, they can have the best search engine, mapping service, and auction tools anywhere, plus paypal to boot. They'd be unstoppable. Might even make an OS after that . . . he he . . . Bye bye yahoo!