samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 27 2007 | google, australia, maps
"Camera-shy pedestrians should be advised to stay indoors this summer as a fleet of Google-mobiles equipped with roof-mounted cameras trawl Australian capital cities snapping locales for the Internet search giant’s Google Street View. The cars will be doing the rounds in Australian capital cities, taking 360 degree panoramic street-level photographs to be used on Google Maps’ Street View feature."
Hahaha... this will be interesting. Can't wait to see the results :)
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 22 2008 | google, software, web apps, public transport, australia
"While Perth will be the first Australian city with Google Transit, company officials said the search firm was in talks with other state transport authorities and expected the service eventually to be available Australia-wide."
Good luck Google if you're bringing this to Melbourne. Unless you cater for our broken system, all Google Transit will do is remind us what public transport should be.
"Why don't we have all the (applications) on the network - and by the way it's free," Mr Schmidt said in a dig at Microsoft."
Arrogant twat. Nice to see he conveniently forgets that we're actually giving Google all our data for free so they can effectively on-sell it and make more money at our expense. There's no such thing as a free lunch, people.
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 10 2007 | google, environment, australia
"But when operators hide behind the whole “eco-friendly” concept and say that using a black site (instead of white like Google etc) will benefit the environment is just horse-shit... its just not ethical to state that by displaying everything in a black background that the environment will be saved and that our computer screens will use less power - unless they can clearly prove the claim."
Blackle? Lol, how ridiculous. The guy must be having a ball with all the money he's earning from Google though. Smart arse.
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - May 30 2007 | google, startups, melbourne, australia
"Google is keeping a close eye on a small, suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on the world leader...MyLiveSearch is fundamentally different...The search terms are put through Google, or other indexed search databases, but those results are treated as "starting points" alongside the user's bookmarks and other popular web hubs."
Hey, a Melburnian getting a chance of making it big! Good luck, but I hope there's more to it that what's online now, and next time, hire a graphics designer :)
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