Comments on: Google Acquires ImageAmerica http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/ Startup and Technology News Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:05:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Google acquires ImageAmerica : Blog & WordPress http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1533154 Google acquires ImageAmerica : Blog & WordPress Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:21:40 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1533154 [...] Google Acquires ImageAmerica [...] [...] Google Acquires ImageAmerica [...]

]]> By: Federico Campo Piombi http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1515301 Federico Campo Piombi Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:48:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1515301 Of course, that's why they're so interested in aerial imagery.. perhaps they're looking for a pice of land to start "GLand".. a country where you can get a free GBlock with your Gmail account. Maybe they took Second Life too serious. Of course, that’s why they’re so interested in aerial imagery.. perhaps they’re looking for a pice of land to start “GLand”.. a country where you can get a free GBlock with your Gmail account. Maybe they took Second Life too serious.

]]> By: catchkin http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513765 catchkin Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:02:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513765 Hmm good ! Will Google be a kingdom ? Hmm good !
Will Google be a kingdom ?

]]> By: bside http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513646 bside Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:47:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513646 IA has a fast airplane with a *patented* camera mounted in it, and can apparently turn around these maps extremely quickly. They could have bought them solely for the protection of the patent on the camera, to ensure they continue to have highres imagery... or of course to also lock out others from such capability... IA has a fast airplane with a *patented* camera mounted in it, and can apparently turn around these maps extremely quickly. They could have bought them solely for the protection of the patent on the camera, to ensure they continue to have highres imagery… or of course to also lock out others from such capability…

]]> By: Rb http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513314 Rb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:58:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513314 @ #12 "Google losing focus?" Your a complete moron; the maps market is huge, and they are working at being the best ... RB @ #12 “Google losing focus?”

Your a complete moron; the maps market is huge, and they are working at being the best …

RB

]]> By: omadsense http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513225 omadsense Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:42:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513225 great, so now they own the technology they plan to continue crossing the privacy boundry with..... great, so now they own the technology they plan to continue crossing the privacy boundry with…..

]]> By: Clement http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513102 Clement Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:30:54 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1513102 Mmmmm!Yet another acquisition by Google.How many have they swallowed so far?I like Google but I do not like this business of swallowing other companies. Why cant they concentrate on their own R&D and develop leading edge tools?I think they can do it! Mmmmm!Yet another acquisition by Google.How many have they swallowed so far?I like Google but I do not like this business of swallowing other companies.
Why cant they concentrate on their own R&D and develop leading edge tools?I think they can do it!

]]> By: 破百的老兵 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511938 破百的老兵 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:21:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511938 <strong>Google 購併 ImageAmerica...</strong> 衛星影像已經不能滿足 Google 的好奇心了嗎… 剛看到新聞，Google 宣佈購併了一家做空照圖的公司 ImageAmerica；拍空照圖沒什麼特別的，但是要怎樣把拍下來的低空高解析度空照圖以正確的..... Google 購併 ImageAmerica…

衛星影像已經不能滿足 Google 的好奇心了嗎…

剛看到新聞，Google 宣佈購併了一家做空照圖的公司 ImageAmerica；拍空照圖沒什麼特別的，但是要怎樣把拍下來的低空高解析度空照圖以正確的…..

]]> By: Sufiy http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511625 Sufiy Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:15:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511625 Google GOOG Earnings and Growth are Falling further The most important ring bell for all Google shareholders should be falling by 12% margin from almost constant before 33% to 29% of revenue. With increase in revenue of 58% Y/Y Google demonstrated falling growth rate of -25% Y/Y. Google network growth is falling even more faster by -38% Y/Y due to heating up competition. Net Income actually fall from 1billion to 0.9 billion comparing to the 1st q 2007. Total cost and Expenses are growing 116% faster then revenue growth rate Q/Q. Sales per head is down by -6%. With all this deteriorating fundamentals investors still were ready to pay last Thursday 548.59 which brings Google to valuation of P/S=12.9, P/E=47, P/FCF=74. Even if Google... http://sufiy.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-goog-earnings-and-growth-are.html Google GOOG Earnings and Growth are Falling further
The most important ring bell for all Google shareholders should be falling by 12% margin from almost constant before 33% to 29% of revenue. With increase in revenue of 58% Y/Y Google demonstrated falling growth rate of -25% Y/Y. Google network growth is falling even more faster by -38% Y/Y due to heating up competition. Net Income actually fall from 1billion to 0.9 billion comparing to the 1st q 2007. Total cost and Expenses are growing 116% faster then revenue growth rate Q/Q. Sales per head is down by -6%. With all this deteriorating fundamentals investors still were ready to pay last Thursday 548.59 which brings Google to valuation of P/S=12.9, P/E=47, P/FCF=74. Even if Google…
http://sufiy.blogspot.com/2007.....h-are.html

]]> By: eas http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511563 eas Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:23:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511563 I don't know the aerial imaging market at all, but it seems to me that there are two good reasons, complimentary to eachother, why Google would buy a company like this. First, they want to deny competitors access to a key technology or service. If this company is the clear leader in it's market, then they have just denied Microsoft access to a potentially important resource. Second, they want to make sure they continue to have access to a key technology based service. If Microsoft bought the company instead, they could have cut off Google's ability to acquire the highest resolution aerial photography, which would hurt their mapping efforts. Make no mistake, mapping is very important to Google, because mapping is very important to local services, and locality is a very important piece of context in context specific advertising. I don’t know the aerial imaging market at all, but it seems to me that there are two good reasons, complimentary to eachother, why Google would buy a company like this.

First, they want to deny competitors access to a key technology or service. If this company is the clear leader in it’s market, then they have just denied Microsoft access to a potentially important resource.

Second, they want to make sure they continue to have access to a key technology based service. If Microsoft bought the company instead, they could have cut off Google’s ability to acquire the highest resolution aerial photography, which would hurt their mapping efforts.

Make no mistake, mapping is very important to Google, because mapping is very important to local services, and locality is a very important piece of context in context specific advertising.

]]> By: Free Nature Photography Wallpaper http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511482 Free Nature Photography Wallpaper Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:09:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511482 this after a huge loss in the market... Soo what are they planning with this? Perhaps selling cameras to towns for security like london... So Google will soon know your emails, what you search for, and .... Where you go! this after a huge loss in the market… Soo what are they planning with this? Perhaps selling cameras to towns for security like london… So Google will soon know your emails, what you search for, and …. Where you go!

]]> By: jose http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511333 jose Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:35:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511333 Duncan, What do you think the point is of this deal? Duncan, What do you think the point is of this deal?

]]> By: Planet Malaysia http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511289 Planet Malaysia Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:46:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511289 Yes. Google will be another evil like Micro$oft Yes. Google will be another evil like Micro$oft

]]> By: Duncan Riley http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511259 Duncan Riley Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:09:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511259 OK fair point by some: there are alternatives to Google Cache...and it probably highlights that I've become far too dependent to Google for everything, I'll remember archive.org next time :-) OK
fair point by some: there are alternatives to Google Cache…and it probably highlights that I’ve become far too dependent to Google for everything, I’ll remember archive.org next time :-)

]]> By: flexipoll http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511254 flexipoll Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:04:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511254 Take this poll on Google acquisitions: <a href="http://www.flexipoll.com" rel="nofollow">flexi poll for your blog</a> or try this: <a href="http://www.flexipoll.com/show.php?embed=1&poll=59" rel="nofollow">Which has been the best Google acquisition till now?</a> Take this poll on Google acquisitions:

flexi poll for your blog

or try this:

Which has been the best Google acquisition till now?

]]> By: mind http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511239 mind Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:53:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511239 google has already turned evil. they wouldn't have deleted the cached version of the old company website before they censor parts of satellite maps because of whining from foreign governments, they delete cached versions of old websites, they retain all search history, emails, etc. google has already turned evil. they wouldn’t have deleted the cached version of the old company website before

they censor parts of satellite maps because of whining from foreign governments, they delete cached versions of old websites, they retain all search history, emails, etc.

]]> By: Jessica Mah http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511119 Jessica Mah Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:44:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511119 Google is acquiring soooo many companies! Is it becoming too much? I have friends who work at Google who agree that they're becoming more and more like a stereotypical big business is. I wonder if this will ever end... what if Google were to turn evil overnight? (yay, a new blog topic!) Google is acquiring soooo many companies! Is it becoming too much? I have friends who work at Google who agree that they’re becoming more and more like a stereotypical big business is.

I wonder if this will ever end… what if Google were to turn evil overnight? (yay, a new blog topic!)

]]> By: jose http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511035 jose Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:07:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1511035 Very little information. What comes next? Google buying a toilet paper factory. We all use internet, but we all go to the bathroom too. Very little information. What comes next? Google buying a toilet paper factory. We all use internet, but we all go to the bathroom too.

]]> By: Rishi http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510862 Rishi Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:09:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510862 @Andrew Actually, the domain name has a "-" in it, so heres the cache of the website, from 2001 to February 2007 : http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.image-america.com/ Without bashing on Duncan, it would have been easy to get more details on the site for reporting purposes. @Andrew
Actually, the domain name has a “-” in it, so heres the cache of the website, from 2001 to February 2007 :
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.image-america.com/

Without bashing on Duncan, it would have been easy to get more details on the site for reporting purposes.

]]> By: Shakir Razak http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510856 Shakir Razak Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:00:45 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510856 Duncan, Could you please find out Why does Google keep closing the individual websites of any acquisition that isn't a content company. They are everything they claim they are not such as the effort to contact them not electronically, blog-comment difficulty, lack of privacy/statements, etc; and to actively delete their cache of an acquired company -it'll only become worse, unless their given an early public slap on the wrist! Kind regards, Shakir Razak Duncan,

Could you please find out Why does Google keep closing the individual websites of any acquisition that isn’t a content company.

They are everything they claim they are not such as the effort to contact them not electronically, blog-comment difficulty, lack of privacy/statements, etc; and to actively delete their cache of an acquired company -it’ll only become worse, unless their given an early public slap on the wrist!

Kind regards,

Shakir Razak

]]> By: Chris http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510838 Chris Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:39:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510838 I'm sorry, I dont see the point of this acquisition considering Google core business. A strategic partnership? sure. An acquisition? no. Yes, maybe they want to deny Microsoft and others access to the technology. But wouldn't that be anti-competitive? Such as, hmm...blocking Google in Windows Vista? I’m sorry, I dont see the point of this acquisition considering Google core business. A strategic partnership? sure. An acquisition? no.

Yes, maybe they want to deny Microsoft and others access to the technology. But wouldn’t that be anti-competitive? Such as, hmm…blocking Google in Windows Vista?

]]> By: patricia http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510816 patricia Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:15:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510816 Interesting. I wonder what Google has planned. Interesting. I wonder what Google has planned.

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510757 David Mackey Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:49:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510757 Interesting acquisition. Will they sell these high-end cameras or only use them internally? Interesting acquisition. Will they sell these high-end cameras or only use them internally?

]]> By: Andrew http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510753 Andrew Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:35:22 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510753 is Google the only site that caches webpages? Just go to http://web.archive.org/web/*/imageamerica.com and you can see a history of that website This just goes to show, that we are so dependent on Google that they essentially can control the internet for content is Google the only site that caches webpages?

Just go to http://web.archive.org/web/*/imageamerica.com and you can see a history of that website

This just goes to show, that we are so dependent on Google that they essentially can control the internet for content

]]> By: matt http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510746 matt Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:26:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/21/google-acquires-imageamerica/#comment-1510746 Google is finally losing focus. Google is finally losing focus.

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