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Monday, 27th February 2006

Microsoft Begins Offering "Preview" of Street-Level Imagery

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+ Google Names Director of Israeli Research Office (via SearchMarketing.co.il)
"Dr. Yoeli Mark, a senior manager at IBM development center in Haifa Israel, will be the head of Google's development center in Israel, also in Haifa."
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+ Amazon's A9 Mystery (via Red Herring)
From the article, "What's stopping Amazon from capitalizing on a system for pairing data on consumer buying habits with search engine-powered ads? No one inside Amazon would answer that question for Red Herring, and the best guess outside seems to be that A9 needs to generate much more traffic before the data is bountiful enough to be meaningful and the weird thing is it doesn't appear to be trying to generate it." Btw, as you know A9 made news when they launched their street-level imagery (aka "BlockView Images") for several cities in the U.S. However, I monitor the site daily for new additions and haven't seen any new cities added in many months.
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+ Microsoft Begins Offering "Preview" of Street-Level Imagery (via TechCrunch)
I just said (see above) that it has been a while since I saw any new street-level imagery from A9. Today, TechCrunch reports that Microsoft's Live Local service will begin offering street level imagery similar to what A9 is doing. Preview here. From Arrington's post, "The service will initially target San Francisco and Seattle only due to the massive number of images needed to make it work (rumors are 10 million+ images per city)." More about the new preview from MSN Search's WebLog. Microsoft Live Local also offers the cool "bird's eye" aerial (vs. satellite imagery) for several U.S. cities. Examples and more here.
See Also: As I pointed out yesterday, Ask.com Now Offers Aerial Imagery (taken by a plane not satellite) for the U.S. and Canada

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