Google satellite view is simply amazing.

April 5th, 2005 Is there a broader plan behind latest Google innovations? At first sight some of them seems random addition to the Google family (20% effort or not) and somewhat unrelated to its search focus. Lets scan Google News lately: Google Maps now has a satellite Google Ride Finder - Builds on top of Google Maps to show you the live positions of various taxis in your area.

July 3rd, 2005 If you are worried sick about your privacy you should be and you have probably guessed it - from Microsoft. Orbimage Inc.

March 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government is examining legal options to censor Google Earth and curb it from showing sensitive locations to prevent terror attacks such as what happened in Mumbai, a minister said Tuesday. 'We want Google Earth censored.

June 24th, 2006 France unveiled Géoportail website on Friday. It allows people to access detailed satellite images of the country and offers more detail of France than Google Earth.

February 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the red planet. Besides providing a rich, immersive three dimensional view of Mars that will aid public understanding of Mars science, the new mode, Google Mars 3D, also gives researchers a platform for sharing data similar to what Google Earth provides for Earth scientists.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - E.T. has finally been tracked down - in a picture taken for Google Street View.

March 2nd, 2006 Nowadays I see irrelevant Google AdSense ads much more than usual and they are often pretty outrageous. Here is a glaring example (click on image for larger view): I think it is trying to over-optimize or simply running out of ads.

July 21st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, web pioneer Google launched what could be the ultimate guide to the earth's natural satellite. Google on Monday updated its popular mapping software Google Earth with a complete map of the moon that allows you to explore craters, historic sites and human artefacts.

April 5th, 2008 TechCrunch got it from a source that Google plans to launch their BigTable, their proprietary internal database which is used for Google Search, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB Web Service. Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers at Google.

January 10th, 2007 Beginning in early 2007, selected Samsung phones are being provided with a range of Google products and services aimed to "create a more dynamic user experience", including: Google search: Samsung handsets will include a GoogleTM icon in the application menu, providing users with one-click access to search Google Maps for mobile: Google Maps for mobile allows users to view maps and satellite imagery, find local businesses, and get driving directions on the go Gmail for mobile devices, GMail customized for mobile form factor Samsung has already launched, the Ultra Edition 13.8 (SGH-Z720), its first mobile handset installed with GoogleTM mobile search and GmailTM services. The slim 3G Z720 is only 13.8mm in thinness, is HSDPA ready, and comes with a 3-megapixel camera, MP3 Player, and Bluetooth connectivity.

February 2nd, 2009 BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO - Academics and armchair explorers were as of Monday offered a unique insight into the world's seas through a new release of Google Earth, which now also features satellite imagery, photos and videos of the planet's oceans. The 5.0 version of the popular downloadable software was launched in San Francisco.

January 22nd, 2007 I am using Google Calendar, as an experiment, for my projects. I noticed 5 things, between unprintable curses, which make it seriously dysfunctional as an usable product.

October 22nd, 2005 Here are some amazing AJAX powered Web Services ranked as I like them. The list includes online word processor, spreadsheet, calendar, wiki and chat client.

April 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Google's controversial Street View does not infringe people's privacy, a watchdog has ruled. The service has made pictures of people's homes and cars available to everyone across the web, reports Sky News.

November 5th, 2008 Google Analytics is repeatedly failing today. Whenever I am trying to change my dates or even switch from dialy to weekly view I am getting the dreaded message: There was an error fetching data for this view.