I don't know about this

http://tinyurl.com/4k689

Hey!! Now I can show the world something!!!!!

I played with it this morning, and I loved it! MapQuest used to have aerial photos of addresses, but they stopped doing that. I nearly cried. I love to see an aerial shot of an address!

I saw the title of this thread and thought it said Google Evil satellite map feature. Why is that, i wonder.

I wonder!

I'm not quite sure why there would be "privacy concerns" about this as they're not live images. If they were, you'd probably see a certain washed up TV host arguing with his wife on his farm.

With all these sat image sites popping up, I might have to meet with my neighbors to see if they'll let me paint their roofs white so it says "You suck" when viewed from a satellite.

I have a several big fields in front of my house, just imagine the message I could convey..

Crop circles?

Bahh, that's so been done already. I'll be my own man. Crop squares.

Hey, ma! I can see my house

Hmm, how do I say this.. I'm not your ma.

But! OMG! *cries*

Hmm, how do I say this; I'm not your G.. either.

And I had high hopes too.

In other google news - Google released the enterprise edition of its google desktop search program at http://desktop.google.com/enterprise

Why the new enterprise features are a big deal for IT administrators:

* Centrally control user features and preferences
* Encrypt all user data and search index files
* Easily deploy using the included installation package
* Test new versions before distributing

Take the factory tour of google
http://www.google.com/press/factorytour.html

More Google news - Google video search is in beta
http://video.google.com/video_about.html#channels

Pretty cool thing but needs more indexing to be useful

If you use google toolbar , google released a version of google toolbar for firefox at http://toolbar.google.com/

Google Toolbar BETA for Firefox
SpellCheck
Check your spelling whenever you type in web forms
AutoLink (US only)
Turn street addresses into links to online maps
AutoFill
Automatically fill out forms for faster online shopping
WordTranslator
Translate English words into other languages

http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/index.html?
Google Earth Beta
A 3D interface to the planet
For your desktop

Thanks Trally, I'm going to check it out.

It appears to be a travel map in construction. A really cool one though.

Thanks.

I just sat and played with this thing for hours. Its pretty amazing how you can zoom all the way down on the houses even.

Hahaha - If you zoom in full mode, the moon is made of cheese

I can't wait for it to be available for Mac OS X!

Latest google news is news.com was of c/net was blackballed by google until July 2006 for writing this article showing how powerful google is by allowing anyone to look up facts about most anyone.

I got the news via the blog located here as well as the radio clash blog

http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
Google's cheat sheet

Thanks Trallyus, I'll file that one away for some future searching.

Glad to hear you and Jbone liked it Have fun with it

Google Desktop 2 (Beta) new sidebar feature
http://desktop.google.com/features.html#sidebar

Even though I have Google as my home page I still found some helpful items Thanks, Trally.Its differant from some of what I have.

http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google new blog search beta

Google Reader
http://reader.google.com/


Google Wifi
http://wifi.google.com/download.html

Google Personal page
http://www.google.com/ig

Google 2084

Google store
https://www.googlestore.com/

Google Zeitgeist
http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html
top 15 keywords in google by country

Looks like microsoft copied googles personal page with their release of MS live today at http://www.live.com/

It's not firefox friendly yet and wants you to login with msn passport but it reminds me of googles personal page at http://www.google.com/ig

Google Now Supporting (Some Call it Underwriting) Popular Public Television Program

Although Google has been known for making it's name and brand awareness to this point by primarily using word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and great pr, it's clear that the company is moving into using more traditional techniques to promote its products, services, and reinforce its name and brand in the consumer arena. MediaDailyNews reports that Google is currently sponsoring/underwriting (the actual text of the spot says "supporting") the popular public tv program NOVA that airs on PBS. A 15 second Google video "spot" is seen before each program. A Nova also has a page for Google setup on its site where it's listed as an underwriter and where you can view one of the 15 second announcements (QuickTime, Real, MS Media).

You can view the google announcement at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/funders/google.html

http://www.google.com/musicsearch
Google's music search Allows you to search for legal music that resides on itunes, etc

Google Offers $1 Billion for 5% of AOL

Google has offered to pay $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in America Online, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, effectively pushing Microsoft out of any negotiation with Time Warner. The news marks a major setback to Microsoft's efforts to gain a more even footing with Google in the search industry.

If the rumors prove true, it would mean nearly a year's worth of negotiations between Microsoft and AOL would have been for naught. Microsoft had endeavored to convince AOL to drop Google for MSN Search, as well as combine the sales and advertising departments of the two companies.

I hope AOL stays with Google and runs M$ off .
Never cared for MSN anything .

Me, too. I like MSN even less than AOL.

Google Pack A free collection of essential software
http://pack.google.com/

Read more Here
Google Pack offers programs that meet Google's high software standards and are considered best in their class, including:

-- Adobe Reader 7

-- Ad-Aware SE Personal

-- GalleryPlayer HD Images

-- Google Desktop

-- Google Earth

-- Google Pack Screensaver

-- Google Talk

-- Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer

-- Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar

-- Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition

-- Picasa

-- RealPlayer

-- Trillian

Google Pack also includes Google Updater, a new tool that intelligently downloads, installs and maintains all the software in the Google Pack. Google Updater alerts users when updates and new programs become available and ensures each program is always up-to-date. Google Updater can also be used to monitor the status of installation, run software that's been installed, or easily uninstall software.

Has anybody downloaded this yet and do you like it?

Google Epic 2015

Keep you Romulan_sela away from http://video.google.com/

They are selling some star trek series

Google Mobile - Cool if you have a cell phone with net access
http://mobile.google.com/personalized/index.html

Government Wants Google Search Data

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a United States federal judge in San Jose, Calif. to order Google to turn over search records from its database. The request stems from a failure by the search giant to comply with a subpoena issued in October.

The federal government is attempting to gather data to support a child protection law that was struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. Under that law, the government could punish pornography sites that made content easily accessible to minors.

However, the Supreme Court found the law too broad, and said that it could restrict the ability of adults to access these sites. It gave the government an opportunity to either rewrite the law or prove that it doesn't violate the First Amendment rights of the Web site owners and visitors