In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
Google’s announced a special press event for next Wednesday on search that “you won’t want to miss.” What big news could there be? Let’s speculate — but I wouldn’t get too excited. Here’s what the invite says: We invite you to join us on Wednesday, September 8, to share our latest technological innovation and to […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: TweetUp Scores Its Own Search Column In TweetDeck TweetUp, the new AdWords-like ad platform for Twitter has added a prime, new publishing partner: the popular Twitter client, TweetDeck. In an email […]
Saturday, April 24th is the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Telescope by NASA. The launch date was exactly on April 24, 1990 at 8:33:51 am EDT. Google Australia already has a special logo up for the day. This logo, like the Olympics logo spans across the width of the web page. Something […]
Today at the TED conference in Southern California, Microsoft’s Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrated a new crowdsourced-version Bing Maps that integrates photos and even live video that is shared by others. Microsoft will also soon launch what we’ve dubbed “Bing Sky,” the ability to use Bing to look up in the sky and see what’s […]
CNET reports on testimony provided by Google VP Marissa Mayer on the “Future of Journalism” during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. Defending against claims that Google “parasitically” makes money off the backs of print newspaper content, Mayer said: Google connects Internet users […]
Google is having a special event today featuring former US vice president Al Gore to announce its new Google Earth 5.0 software that features new underwater views of the world’s oceans (Google Ocean) and 3D views, as well as “historic imagery” that allows people to see the earth back in time through archived satellite views […]
Microsoft has launched (an appropriate metaphor this time) its Worldwide Telescope desktop application. You must download the software, but then you’re treated to a beautiful array of images and “guided tours” of the cosmos (see screenshots below). Intended for science education, “Worldwide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies, and displays them […]
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans from News.com reports Google is working on a new mapping system to map the Earth’s oceans. The tool might be named Google Ocean and will complement Google Earth and Google Sky. News.com says Google Ocean will contain 3D oceanographic maps with underwater topography, search features for spots and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google announced that they have taken Google Sky from Google Earth and now made it viewable on the web at sky.google.com. Many of the Google Sky features found within Google Earth are also available on the browser version. You can: Search Browse Change the video between infrared, microwave, ultraviolet, or x-ray Telescope galleries from Hubble […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Lawsuit claims Google stole idea for Sky layer in Earth from News.com reports a Google contractor named Jonathan Cobb is suing Google for allegedly stealing a Sky layer idea from him. Sky layers are data in both graphical and textual form that are used in Google Earth. Jonathan Cobb filed suit in an Atlanta federal […]
The Google LatLong Blog announced they have updated Sky in Google Earth with new content, features, and API integrations. To see Google Sky, click “Switch to Sky” from the “view” drop-down menu in Google Earth, or click the Sky button on the Google Earth toolbar. Here is a list of new features and content that […]
It has nothing to do with organizing the world’s information — but I don’t care, it’s pretty cool. Google’s backing a private moon landing. In particular, it’s putting up $30 million for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a contest for private landings on the moon.
In Google Earth, a Service for Scanning the Heavens from the New York Times reports that Google Earth has released a new version that allows you to look up at the sky and see the galaxy. The feature is described more here. The new feature will let you virtually look up at the sky, from […]