Google’s Marissa Mayer gave a “deep dive” presentation on Google Earth at the DLD conference in Munich yesterday (see our coverage from the first day here). Her presentation is embedded below. Lots of interesting stats and creative use of the technology: “Hundreds of millions of Google Earth downloads and activations,” and the equivalent of “1,000 human lifetimes have been spent looking at Google Earth.” Many people are now using sketchup to build 3D models.
How many lifetimes playing Minesweeper or Solitaire?
did this cameraman shoot blair witch?
it was me.
I was sitting on the ground and kept getting bumped. Plus, I suck at it.
“Hundreds of millions of Google Earth downloads and activiations,” and the equivalent of “1,000 human lifetimes have been spent looking at Google Earth.” Do we need to teach her maths ???
It seems you work hard earning your flight on the Google plane
Google plane is real
Assuming worldwide average 50 years, 1000 people, 500m downloads (hundred of millions!) then that equates to around an hour of use a piece.
Is that really impressive? I think not.
I agree, that number is low.
Just in time to mention the release of Make3d, a site that produces 3D view from single snapshots:
http://make3d.stanford.edu/
One can imagine taking photos of building and making instant 3D models of entire towns.
Enjoy,
Igor.
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Wonder how many hours people spend everyday (and nights) on FrostWire or Bittorrent.
Its a little scary all the information available, airplane altitudes and locations and what not, the world gets easier and easier for terrorists to plan their attacks (Not that they wouldn’t plan them anyway without these services, but this certainly lowers their budgets)
With this new tool we will be able not only to create our own designs, but that most important, we will fun doing it. That´s great!
she’s so hot.
I think 1,000 life times / is a big number. Since we all only get 1.
- if it was 1 hour a download / of use, that is great for free software.
Glad to see the mainstream geospatial tools continue to build momentum. NASA’s World Wind application provides an alternative to GE as well.
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I agree, she is so hot. Yum yum.
Human lifetimes is kind of creepy as a unit of time. Evokes waste and bad prioritization. Useful for describing a distasteful activity, not something good.
Who the hell shot this? Not enough footage of Marissa Mayer. I would work at Google just so I could meet her.
Glad to see the mainstream geospatial tools continue to build momentum.
“Deep dive”? I used to work at EBay, during the time when the auction businsess started to go into a deep dive. The managers there used to love the word “deep dive”.
I wonder how many human hours have been spent watching porn on the internet. that would be impressive.
Il y a environ un an j’ai acheté le plateau à huîtres personnel du champion français d’ouverture d’huîtres à la brasserie Lorraine à Paris pour 100 Euros.
Le mec arrive à ouvrir 216 huîtres toutes les 5 minutes.
Un an plus tard je me demande si j’aurais fait mieux d’acheter la souri du pire des employées de chez Google, juste pour une question de productivité. Regarde un peu :
- le modèle de revenu chez Google est d’employer des cons pour les faire clicker le plus rapidement possible sur des liens sponsorisés par des loosers.
- sur un effectif de 16.000 employées il y en a 15.998 qui font ça du matin au soir.
- ils font un chiffre d’affaires d’environ 4 Milliards de dollars.
- avec un prix moyen par click d’environ 0.20$ l’employé type de cette étrange boite clicke pour environ 65 fois toutes les 5 minutes, bien inférieur à la performance de l’effort humain et intellectuel du meilleur ouvreur d’huîtres de France.
La dernière frontière du travail c’est bien aux USA. Travailler moins pour gagner plus.
Et pendant ce temps, comme par hazard, le cours de l’action monte.
@9: it’s only as scary as your government wants you to believe. we wouldn’t be in this dilemma if we would have more respect for each other.
So how many life-times have been spent on the google website itself? I bet that number is astonishing.
Very interesting video. I spend a lot of my day developing applications harnessing the power of Google Earth (and Maps) and found this a very comprehensive look into how these products are being used.
Does anyone know what happens at 5:25 in the video? It sounds interesting…
i use google earth whenever planning a holiday, its great to just look around an area and see what hotels/bars/restaurants are nearby as well as public transport routes in most major cities..