Google's future - not building related

[Daddymem]

What do you think- better or worse - or wait and see?

Out from under gov censorship maybe but subject to Google whims?

Would it be possible for Google to blanket the US with coverage as an alternative to the other corporate controlled nets proposed?

Who knows if this is bad or not...way too early.  AOL, MSN have tried similar and failed but neither was as big as Google was, were they?  I don't see how Google couldn't blanket the country (probably the earth) with their new net.  Fasten your seatbelts and hang on.

[Daddymem]

More spreading of Google.

[glenn kangiser]

Where some of this is heading.

What happens to the data?

[Amanda_931]

wonder if the guy they arrested after looking for whoever looked for those maps was actually the murder, or just didn't believe he could possibly be freed.

[ergodesk]

Guess who's back from Broke back Mtn? It's "GOOGLE"
Check out the header on this page.

http://www.sketchup.com/index.php?id=1451

George

[bartholomew]

Wow,  it'd be cool if they started distrbuting it for free like they did with Picassa.

[glenn kangiser]

Quote from Scroogle - a site that searches but doesn't keep records on you--- not as pretty or useful but an option.

Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google since January 2000, used to work for the National Security Agency.

Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004, was funded by the CIA.

"We are moving to a Google that knows more about you."     —   Google CEO Eric Schmidt, February 9, 2005

Since 2000, Google has recorded your search terms, the date-time of each search, the globally-unique ID in your cookie (it expires in 2038), and your IP address. This information is available to governments on request. If your favorite site features a Google search box, ask them to install their own local site search. They could also use our site search for webmasters, which shows the same results without the tracking.

[John Raabe]

The possibilities of SketchUp and Google are very interesting. It appears that SketchUp started down this road trying to find a way to put 3D objects into the Google Earth database. They must have been reasonably successful. The fact that Google then made them an offer they couldn't refuse leads me to believe there are integration plans afoot...

Imagine that SketchUp becomes a tool (perhaps running on-line) that allows you to do a building model at your property address and integrated into the 3D terrain already in Google Earth. You can then send this address to your friends and family running Google Earth. Using such a tool you could be as elaborate as you have the patience for... a simple shapes model down to choosing interior finishes and trim details.

What a future marketing tool as well. How about walking through a virtual 3D shopping mall and going into a store where the SketchUp model is integrated into the store's database of sweaters in my size...

SketchUp is quite powerful and relatively intuitive. It is now also expensive...

Try the free download here. Here is the Google Earth plug-in.

How this will change the program in the future will be interesting. I'm sure the sales of the program will drop off sharply and has already be calculated into the equation. (Who would pay $700 for a program that might be free in 6 months?)

Users who have paid for the program - what do they think? (I'm going to send this link to a friend who uses the program professionally.)

[glenn-k]

The net is under attack by our government whores and big business.

http://www.rense.com/general70/savee.htm

[glenn-k]

In our continuing loss of privacy in the interest of big business (and turned over to government??)  Google will next be listening to our TV - and of course the will edit out our private conversations - maybe won't even listen to what goes on in the bedroom if we forget and leave it on in there. :-/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/03/google_eavesdropping_software/

[Amanda_931]

Ouch--they're getting closer to the system in 1984.   Where the voice from the screen tells our hero that he's not doing his exercises right.

[glenn-k]

Yeah that was my thought -

It's not so much that they want to advertise that bothers me -- It's that if they can listen to our TV through our computer if we leave it on with the built in microphone activated (millions won't give it a second thought - mine is on right now on my laptop) , then they can listen to anything we do -  think I'll go pass a little gas for them. :-/

Even cell phones communicate constantly with the cells - even though you are not using them.  At the very least they can triangulate your coordinates and ID.  If not now --when will they send a stream of all your conversations and words  to be analyzed by government computers?  If a cell phone is not in contact with the cell it is constantly looking for it thereby running the battery down faster when out of service.

Yup - 1984 is here -- I read that Orwell wasn't predicting this when he wrote 1984 - he was part of the "in crowd" and was in on the planning of it.