[rezzi]

A very interesting piece on the founders of Google. I personally rarely use that particular search engine, but those guys have blown up just the same. It never occured to me that a search engine could make someone incredibly wealthy. Having some 3k employees, looks like most of the cool jobs are in Cali.

But what impressed me the most, was that huge plasma screen they had displaying a rotating earth. Anywhere in the world someone used Google, their location would show up on the globe in real-time. That was very sci-fi and futuristic looking, almost unbelievable.

[paully dub]

I'd love to see that. And what search engine do you use if not google? Just curious.

[ironknee]

i caught the half of it.

cool...however that demo about being on the streets and looking for a pharmacy. She googled in her cell phone and got back an instant email telling her that she was 2 blocks away from the nearest one...isn't that available already?

[ambush]

Originally posted by rezzi:
But what impressed me the most, was that huge plasma screen they had displaying a rotating earth. Anywhere in the world someone used Google, their location would show up on the globe in real-time. That was very sci-fi and futuristic looking, almost unbelievable.

Pics???? I'd love to see what it looks like.

Sounds very Tony Montana-ish gadgety.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by ambush:
Pics???? I'd love to see what it looks like.

Sounds very Tony Montana-ish gadgety.

Sounds very villain -ish in James Bond.

[rezzi]

Actually, that rotating globe was very 'X-Men' looking. Remember in X2 when Picard--er, Xaiver was using the biodome thingy to locate the mutants world-over. Well, each real-time Google hit showed up on the earth as a 3d-ish shaft of light that extended up from it's location into space. Unreal. Then again they could have been pulling Leslie Stahl's chain.

I pretty much use Altavista for my searches. I remember hearing something about Google spyware on the Mac. That may not be true, but scared me off nonetheless. Anyways, here's a link to the story. There's also a video icon that I couldn't get to work. Maybe someone DVR'd this and could post pics of that virtual rotating planet.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in664063.shtml

[Cubeoid]

I find it hard to believe that Google has more money then GM and Ford Motors, probably true, but it still puzzles me, who does all the cash come from? I guess from companies like GM and Ford and others..who pay google for premium search results.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

oh my gawd

altavista for searches? do you churn your own butter too?

[rezzi]

Yes. And I also hand-crank my own ice cream. The two young co-founders are worth at least 6 Bil apiece, BTW.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

Originally posted by rezzi:
Yes. And I also hand-crank my own ice cream.

that explains it

[ironknee]

did any1 notice that the woman demoing google, was using a pc with an apple cinema disply?

[turtle777]

Originally posted by ironknee:
did any1 notice that the woman demoing google, was using a pc with an apple cinema disply?

Nope. But thanks for sharing.

-t

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
oh my gawd

altavista for searches? do you churn your own butter too?

That was funny

I remember Altavista, it was all the rage in 1997.

[chabig]

Originally posted by ironknee:
did any1 notice that the woman demoing google, was using a pc with an apple cinema disply?

I did. She was.

[djohnson]

Anyone with a vid link?

[MacGorilla]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
That was funny

I remember Altavista, it was all the rage in 1997.

It was good in those days, when it was a DEC research project. Then it got bought out and got heavily commercialized. For a while they were foing their updates every 3 months. Sad.

[macroy]

That was a pretty cool piece (also, that "most beautiful woman" piece was also on that night). I like the vision of one of them where someone would be able to walk into a grocery store, scan the UPC of a product, and get back the prices of that product from all the other stores in a specified area.

THAT, would be some powerful tool....

I do however, think the GLAT is a pretty lame way to filter candidates. While it is only the first step, anything like that would potentially filter out a great talent. Then again, I would never be able to answer those questions... so maybe I just don't understand.

[Gatorzx2]

Originally posted by djohnson:
Anyone with a vid link?

Here's the video (58Mb divx)

The rotating globe showing current google searching is awesome.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by Gatorzx2:
Here's the video (58Mb divx)

The rotating globe showing current google searching is awesome.

Thanks for the link

Keyhole is pretty nifty indeed.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by Gatorzx2:
Here's the video (58Mb divx)

The rotating globe showing current google searching is awesome.

[Jens Peter]

Thanks for sharing!

That was a good break from my exam preperations....

Looks like an interesting place to work...

[stevesnj]

[rezzi]

Gatorzx2, danks for the vid. You rawk!

[olePigeon]

That'd make a cool customizable screensaver.

You could set it to all sorts of variables.

[MaxPower2k3]

for another, shorter video of just the globe, click on the thumbnail here:


http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/colu...s/010477.shtml

[m a d r a]

Originally posted by olePigeon:

hey ole pigeon - i gotta ask, what does your signature say [or what is it supposed to say]? i've got the alban = '[of] scotland' and shona duit = 'to you' part, but i can't find arthuan [or even anything that looks like a derivative of it] in any of my gaelic dictionaries