Satellite snooping.How do you feel about satellite photos of your home being just a mouse click away? Some people think it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have cool. Others aren't aren't Contraction of are not. See Usage Note at ain't. aren't are not aren't be so happy about it. South Korean leaders, for instance, worry that officials in Communist North Korea could use detailed aerial images An aerial image is a projected image which is "floating in air", and cannot be viewed normally. It can only be seen from one position in space, often focused by another lens. of military bases against them. What makes such virtual snooping possible? Google Earth A 3D mapping program from Google that covers the entire globe from satellite images. Requiring a download for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops, a street address can be searched, and the views can be zoomed down to the individual building all the way up to a satellite's view of the globe. . Launched last June, the free computer program has become one of Google's most popular products. That is saying a lot, since Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). is the world's busiest search engine. In the U.S. alone, it handles more than 110 million search queries per day (see bar graph below). If you are wondering how your home or neighborhood looks from space-or if you want to get an eye-in-the-sky view of another town-go to earth.google.com. News Graph Top Five Most-Used Search Engines in the U.S. Average number of searches per day in January 2003 (in millions) Google 112 AOL search 93 YAHOO! 42 msn[R] 32 Ask Jeeves 14 Source: Search Engine Watch Note: Table made from bar graph. |
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