Google Street View Camera
There has been plenty of news about [Google Maps Street View][1] that I blogged about recently. I wanted to know how they do it, well here is how they do it.
Google Maps adds real-time images
Yesterday I was amazed to see yet another new feature in Google Maps . A new button [Street View], gives you are real view of the street in question, you can rotate the image around 360 degrees, and move up and down the street.
Google Maps for Personal Use
Just as I talked yesterday about Google Maps for Traffic Updates , today Google Maps released a new feature today called My Maps. I’ve just started using it, my first map is incomplete but you can see the workings at Travel Locations
Google Maps for Traffic Updates
Saw a new button on Google Maps today called Traffic. Seems they are highlighting traffic congestion. Some real life examples. San Francisco New York . Below is a screen print I took today of the SF area.
Googlewear
I was able to acquire my first piece of Google wear at the recent MySQL Camp Conference. You see a look of cool Google things and little did I know you can buy a lot of it at The Google Store .
Google – Is both friend and foe
This is an interesting article How Google can make – or break – your company. The plight of a small business that overnight lost it’s high free search results and in the coming months say a 20% drop in sales.
Google Earth
Google Earth and Google Maps can give you some great views of our planet. Here is a full-time blog just for Google Earth. There’s plenty of amazing things to see, check out Top Ten Coolest Things seen with Google Earth.
Google Doodles
Sometimes using that Firefox Google Quick Search causes you to miss out on the best part of the Google Search experience, and that is the Google Doodle . Now while I’m tempted to include one here, I’m respecting the wishes of Google which request you use an official logo and “don’t feed the kangaroo“.
Google at “The Simpsons”
I have a friend that is a DBA with Fotolog . A very novel idea that works well. Worth browsing to see what people take photos of. You never know what you find.
Google Talk
Google has like many before it such as AOL, Yahoo and Skype created it’s own online chat program, which you can run with a windows program and which is very neatly integrated into Gmail.
Seaching Google in Klingon or Elmer Fudd
Sometimes I wonder how I get to trivial information. Well in the Wikipedia article Google Hoaxes you will find that the Google search engine is valid in a number of unusual languages including Klingon.
Google Trends
With Google trends you can compare words, and see how they are being used within google searches. You can use it to compare different things. Check it out at http://www.google.com/trends For example, I did a search on MySQL,PostgreSQL,Ingres to compare open source databases.
GoogleWack
This fad started many years ago, and once I achieved it. Well today, I got the google 1 of 1 result. Here are the rules GoogleWack “Your goal: find that elusive query (two words – no quote marks) with a single, solitary result!