Thursday, July 21, 2005

Google the World

Got his from Friday. Personally I like reason #2.

Top Ten Reasons why TT Durai should run for President

10. Unlike Nathan, he doesn't have diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and iscahemic heart disease.

9. Unlike Nair, he doesn't have a known drinking problem.

8. He already knows the judges and ministers.

7. He is familiar with handling millions of dollars that do not belong to him.

6. He is used to being chauffeured around and flying first class.

5. A gold-plated tap won't look out of place in the Istana bathroom.

4. At least when you give to the President's Star Charity, you know it will go to the president.

3. He may be able to make the National Day Parade a profit-generating event.

2. There are guards outside the Istana to stop the walls from being vandalised.

1. He needs a job.
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For those still living in Mars (or moon for that matter), there is a Google Map project.
Basically Google acquired a company with satellite access, and has satellite images of almost the entire earth (i could be wrong).
For the USA map, u can toggle between the map, and the satellite image to find out directions, and the look of the place where u are going. ITS THAT CLOSE UP.

For non-USA, due to sensitive nature of the images, you can't go too close up in most location.
Kinda pity coz I was trying to look at my block.
oh well.

http://maps.google.com/
Toggle between "Map" and "Satellite" to utilise it.
And yah, go ahead and look at Singapore. I reckon the SAF should stick to this rather than our UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). lol.

And the latest edition. (Beside Google Map, there is a Google Earth Project)

Google Moon Project. YES I KNOW. WHAT THE...
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one of the most powerful search engine
2 gigabytes email storage (and counting...)
blog hosting company
plans to digitalise libraries all around the world (at least the non-French ones)
Foogle, a shopping google guide.
Blah blah blah....all the google services here
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From CNN, How much does Google knows about you?

Read it here

Here's just some of the ways Google can collect data on its users:

  • One of Gmail's selling points is its ability to retain e-mail messages "forever."
  • Google's program for scanning library books sometimes requires usernames to protect copyrights.
  • The company is testing software for making Web pages load more quickly; the application routes all Web requests through its servers.
  • Google also provides driving directions, photo sharing and instant messaging, and it is developing a payments service that critics say could add billing information to user profiles.
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    Who will guard the guards?

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