torsdag den 7. maj 2009

The 2008 Founders' Letter


Listen over Google aktiviteter er imponerende ...
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The list of Google activities is impressive ...
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Posted by Sergey Brin, Co-founder & President, Technology

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Geo


While digitizing all the world's books is an ambitious project, digitizing the world is even more challenging. Beginning with our acquisition of Keyhole (the basis of Google Earth) in October 2004, it has been our goal to provide high-quality information for geographic needs. By offering both Google Earth and Google Maps, we aim to provide a comprehensive world model encompassing all geographic information including imagery, topography, road, buildings, and annotations. Today we stitch together images from satellites, airplanes, cars, and user uploads, as well as collect important data, such as roads, from numerous different sources including governments, companies, and directly from users. After the launch of Google Map Maker in Pakistan, users mapped 25,000 kilometers of uncharted road in just two months [...]


Read more: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/2008-founders-letter.html

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