Gates Shows Mostly Search At D
Gates is speaking now and showing stuff that looks an awful lot like Google Satellite/Earth. In fact, most of his talk was search related. He's integrated some very detailed views into his demo, down to much more resolution than Keyhole currently shows. "Local and mapping are coming together as one," he says.
The difference between Google and MSFT's satellite stuff? "We started the satellite thing ten years ago," he said, somewhat defensively. "If it touches on search, we're going to do it, Google's going to do it, Yahoo's going to do it."
Gates also showed a search/homepage personalization tool that looks a lot like the recent stuff from Google (which looks a lot like the old stuff from Yahoo). I won't go into details, but will udpate with links if there is coverage....
Update: They actually announced "MSN Virtual Earth" at the conference. Details in extended entry. Link when it goes up. The image at left is from their "45 degree" angle. Pretty cool.
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From the little we know, the service sounds similar to what TerraFly has been offering for the past 5 years with street overlays and local info.
http://terrafly.fiu.edu
This project receives funding and support from IBM.
John,
Could you email me a screenshot at bryan@strawser.org? I'm a pretty big user of keyhole and am always open for something better
Thanks,
Bryan
hey, could someone plz give me an emailadress from this guy "John Batella"?, im interested in working on this project for microsoft. im a javadeveloper from germany, please - someone could send me an email?
ty-kNA
Is the "45 degree" an improvement on Google Earth? I don't see the huge advantage?
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