Sep 07
Google has once again proven that its products and services are not only the most used worldwide but they are also useful at the most opportune time. Take the case of Google Maps which beats both Yahoo and Bing’s mapping services when Google Maps immediately announced that the SF Bay Bridge will be temporary close during the holiday weekend.
Google Maps has quicky put up an announcement telling its users that the SF Bay Bridge will be close from Sept 4 to Sept 8 and advises users to find other routes to take.
Yahoo on the other hand may have acted on the situation by suggesting alternatively route but did not announced the closure of the bridge. While this may seem ok, some users may have not followed it because Yahoo did not give a reason for giving the alternative route. Hence, users may still end up trying the route towards the SF Bay Bridge only to find out that they can’t use it.
As for Microsoft, the Bing folks may be too busy doing something else that’s why they failed to notice that the Bridge will be closed.
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Google Maps Beats Rivals in Announcing SF Bay Bridge Closure
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Sep 07
While some of us may have embraced Google Street View for its novelty and functionality, the Japanese folks are apparently worried of the continued invasion of privacy of Google’s satellite mapping service. Examiner.com is reporting that Google Japan has been trying to fight off malicious secondary-use of images taken on Street View.
Some Japanese folks have formally complained that Google Japan has been illegally taking and publishing photos not only of Street Views but inside of houses, people’s faces and car licenses plate numbers. It would have been alright if not for the growing use of these information for discrimination and bullying by individuals.
Street View was launched by Google Japan in 2008 and since then it has continuously covered 360-degree images in multiple cities around Tokyo and Osaka. Recently, Google Japan had to retake several images which are 16 inches lower than the original street view when successive complaints were brought to Google Japan’s office.
With this growing problem Google Japan has set up a formal system where citizens can file their complaints. The system allows them report secondary or non-Google sites who are using the Street View images. Google Japan upon receiving these complaints will then send a request for removal from the secondary sites. If the sites refuse to take down the images, Google will then file a legal action aside from blocking off the site from Google Japan’s Search Engine.
In addition, Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has already asked Google to notify local governments and citizens whenever they are going to take photos aside from providing easy means by which request for removal can be made by those who do not have internet access.
But will all these remedy the problem faced by individuals in Japan? Let’s do hope so. Otherwise, Google Japan may have to pull down the service later on.
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Google Street View in Japan Faces Various Complaints
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Sep 07
First time release of .Biz catalogue!
Sedo has exclusively been selected to auction the majority of the available internet catalog of one-character .BIZ domain names in cooperation with Neustar Registry Services, the global registry for .BIZ and .US. This is the first time that a generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry has…
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Sep 07
Use SedoÂ’s Price Suggestion Tool to find out!
Domain valuation is one of the most time consuming factors to consider when owning a large domain portfolio. In the past when a domain owner wanted to know the value of their domain they could hire an appraisal service or make their best guess as to its value. Now Sedo has taken the guess work out…
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Sep 07
Recently I’ve been reading a lot of “doom and gloom” posts – the equivalent of “the sky is falling”. If it’s not PPC declining, it’s the tm holders over-reaching – the new trend seems to be filing a UDRP with little supporting data. Furthermore, the overall state of the economy appears to include the domaining […]
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Sep 07
This is the final comic of a three part series for Domaininator.
Need to catch up on the series?
Domaininator I
Domaininator II
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