Aug 19, 2010 - German Guy Wants to Photograph Those Buildings People Want to Exclude from Google Street View
Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordin...
Aug 18, 2010 - Germans Can Opt-Out Of Google Street View
As we mentioned last week, Google is now allowing German residents to opt-out of having buildings shown in Google Street View Germany.
The removal request page begins by saying that it’s “a pity” that the user wants to make a building un...
Aug 13, 2010 - Dead Girl On Google Street View? No, Just A Game
Imagine clicking through your neighborhood’s Google Street View photos and finding this:
If you think you’re looking at the body of a dead girl, so did people who live on Middle Road in Worcester, England. But, as the Daily Mail reports, it&#...
Aug 10, 2010 - Google Street View Coming To Germany
In the face of resistance from several European countries and agencies, Google says it will launch Street View in Germany before the end of the year. The road-based photo-mapping tool will be available in 20 of Germany’s biggest cities by November, ...
Aug 10, 2010 - Google Founders Were Disagreeing Over Interest-based Ads, WSJ Says
Company-internal disagreements are natural and likely healthy but I think it’s interesting what they are about – from the Wall Street Journal:
By late 2008, Google executives were preparing to launch ads targeted at users’ interests. ...
Aug 10, 2010 - Google's Plans to Improve Ad Targeting
The Wall Street Journal got hold of a confidential Google document from 2008 about interest-based advertising, a feature that was released last year. In addition of providing ads that match the content of a page, Google wants to improve ad quality by crea...
Aug 10, 2010 - South Korea Begins Formal Investigation After Raiding Google?s Offices
South Korea Police Raid Google Office from the New York Times reports South Korea has started a formal investigation against Google over the Street View privacy topic that has been haunting Google for the past few months.
Google’s South Korea offi...
Aug 10, 2010 - Google South Korea Office Raided
ABC News writes:
South Korean police said they raided Google Inc’s Seoul office on Tuesday on suspicion that the Internet search leader had illegally collected data on users.
Google has been preparing since late last year to launch its “...
Aug 10, 2010 - UCSD Student, Professor Try To Solve Google?s Street View Privacy Problem
A grad student and his professor have developed software that eliminates (some) people from Google Street View images. And that could be a boon to Google’s ongoing battles over Street View and privacy.
Arturo Flores, a computer science grad student ...
Aug 05, 2010 - Google Street View returns on the Italian roads
The cars of Google Street View are returned in Italy in order to complete the job of recognition of the territory and to capture new images to insert then on Google Maps.Visitando un’ appropriate page of the site of Google Maps is possible to know w...
Aug 03, 2010 - OpenStreetMap Layer Added To Bing Maps
Bing announced they have added a new layer to the Maps data. The new layer is from Open Street Maps, a free editable map of the whole world.
This layer is a lot like the Wikipedia concept, where anyone can “view, edit and use geographical data in...
Jul 29, 2010 - Street Slide: Microsoft?s Next Killer Maps App?
At the SIGGRAPH 2010 event this week in Los Angeles, Microsoft researchers showed off a next-generation tool for browsing street-level imagery. It’s called Street Slide, and it combines the up close realism of, say, Google Street View or Bing’...
Jul 09, 2010 - SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Friday Maps Mania: Street View Back In Europe, “Wi-Spy” Accusations In US, Mapquest Opens Up & Put Yo...
Jul 09, 2010 - Friday Maps Mania: Street View Back In Europe, ?Wi-Spy? Accusations In US, Mapquest Opens Up & Put Your Check-ins On The Map
With lots of mapping news today, we’re combining it all into a single round up, which focuses largely on Google. The company decided, after suspending, examining and “scrubbing” its Street View equipment in Europe and elsewhere, to resum...
Jul 08, 2010 - WATCH! Google Street View Camera Falls Off Car
Add this to the list of funny and interesting things that Google Street View cameras have recorded — a camera capturing its own demise.
I spotted one of Google’s Street View cars apparently losing its camera near where I live, in Suffern, New ...