That might be a reason why people don't use it, but doesn't explain why Google isn't pushing it more.
My take is that theyre probably wary of pushing it too hard because of monopoly concerns, especially with the Yahoo deal under scrutiny by the government right now, the fewer pieces of the internet it appears they have control over, the better..
Re: the database of cell locations, on this page http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=81873&topic=12595/ it states the info is "from anonymous GPS-readings, etc." Maybe they had their google streets view team and google maps team drive around w/ a cell phone w/ gps. It'd be pretty trivial to write an app that polls to see which cells it currently sees and also note the current GPS location.
Another caveat that I haven't seen mentioned, cell tower placements vary by population density, in urban areas you'll have lots of small cells to handle the load, while in more rural or less densely populated areas, the cells can get much, much larger. For example, in the SF Bay area, there's just one cell that covers the entire Bay Bridge. So your accuracy in cities is going to be much better than elsewhere.
Science and religion don't have to conflict. So long as science sticks to the basic question of 'How?' and religion sticks to 'Why?' Science and reason aren't the right tools to apply to the basic questions humans have had since.. forever, such as, Why do we exist? What is our purpose in life? etc. Religion/spirituality/etc. fill this void for people.
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That might be a reason why people don't use it, but doesn't explain why Google isn't pushing it more.
My take is that theyre probably wary of pushing it too hard because of monopoly concerns, especially with the Yahoo deal under scrutiny by the government right now, the fewer pieces of the internet it appears they have control over, the better..
Re: the database of cell locations, on this page http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=81873&topic=12595/ it states the info is "from anonymous GPS-readings, etc." Maybe they had their google streets view team and google maps team drive around w/ a cell phone w/ gps. It'd be pretty trivial to write an app that polls to see which cells it currently sees and also note the current GPS location.
Another caveat that I haven't seen mentioned, cell tower placements vary by population density, in urban areas you'll have lots of small cells to handle the load, while in more rural or less densely populated areas, the cells can get much, much larger. For example, in the SF Bay area, there's just one cell that covers the entire Bay Bridge. So your accuracy in cities is going to be much better than elsewhere.
Science and religion don't have to conflict. So long as science sticks to the basic question of 'How?' and religion sticks to 'Why?'
Science and reason aren't the right tools to apply to the basic questions humans have had since.. forever, such as, Why do we exist? What is our purpose in life? etc. Religion/spirituality/etc. fill this void for people.
while pointless, the observation isnt worth any more than a hrm.
well, the first step seems to be get your product/service/ideology featured in fortune