Most users find search results to be as good as what they get from Google, but the photos are superb.
Instead, the adventurers went fairly low-tech, using an off-the-self digital camera and fish-eye lens the same tools Google's Business Photos program has used to capture the interiors of more than 100, 000 businesses since it launched three years ago.
It grabs locations from Foursquare to choose from, as well as photos to select from Google images.
The company recently launched a service for phones powered by Google's Android software that automatically syncs photos taken on the devices with a Dropbox account.
The search results come up with the locations that Nick has checked in with his smartphone as well as photos that he has taken, and then uses the coordinates embedded in the photos to display locations on Google Earth.
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In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available.
The site does not contain photos, but instead links to Google images of celebrities.
But I found this mostly worked with photos of famous places or people Google has collected via its Google Goggles product.
Unlike what we do at Google, we can find people, places, photos and interests based on who we talk to on Facebook.
Apple and Google introduced smart phones that could take high quality photos and send them wirelessly over the now widely available 3G network.
Fortunately for them, assembling all that data back in Mountain View was a far less rigorous task: Google engineers use their mapping software to link the photos to their shooting locations and string them together to create the panoramic paths users walk through.
Among them is Brin, who beamed at his on-stage wife and took plenty of photos, from behind his now trademark Google Glass accessory.
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After a group of digilantes formed a Google Group this week dedicated to applying facial recognition technology to photos from the London riots to identify culprits, it caused quite a stir in the media.
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With the pre-installed aVia media player app on NeoTV PRIME, you can play, manage and share your videos, music, and photos from any of your digital storage and Google Android devices to your big screen TV.
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Google announced this week that it will now analyze and sort your photos for you as well.
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Just hours after Instagram, a mobile app that lets users layer pre-programmed filters over their photos to achieve maximum hipness, launched on Google's Android operating system Tuesday, the snark began.
It's surprisingly complicated, though, to convert raw photos into the kind of seamless tableau now available through Google Earth or Microsoft's Local Live website.
The majority of maps features that matter are all here: traffic, turn-by-turn navigation, transit directions, walking directions, satellite view, street view, indoor photos, Zagat restaurant reviews, and a bit of integration with your Google profile.
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Acer Chromebook customers are offered up to 100GB of free Google Drive storage for the first two years after purchase, so files, documents, photos and more are stored safely in the cloud even if the Acer C7 is lost, damaged or stolen.
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Google unveiled yesterday a Facebook rival feature called Google Buzz, which allows users of its email service, Gmail, to send messages, photos and videos to one another and to Tweet them out on social networking site Twitter.
He also uses Google 's Picasa2 and Microsoft 's Picture It to design his own greeting cards from digital photos.
Google Glass is the wearable computing device that provides Internet content to the field of vision, along with photos, videos and speech-to-text technology.
Here are aerial photos of the Forbes headquarters at 60 Fifth Ave, New York, via Bing and Google Maps .
Much as Google has with its Google Drive service, Apple has embraced cloud computing with its iCloud offering, which lets users store documents, photos, music and movies on Web-based servers.
Google in February made a foray into social networking with its Buzz product, which brings social updates such as photos and Web links into Gmail, though the launch was marred by privacy concerns.
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