When Google bought Neven Vision recently they were extremely quick in tearing down all the pages on the websites that Neven Vision had.
I was therefore rather surprised to find that although
http://www.keyhole.com
redirects to Google Earth, if you just add index.html to the url thus
http://www.keyhole.com/index.html
then the old Keyhole site is still there, and apparently fully functioning. |
The Old Download links redirect you to Google Earth. |
Looks like they haven't done the .htaccess file properly. |
How comes on Keyhole NV it says it has Earth and Mars, and now Google owns it they've taken it out? We know they've got the photos to do it (http://mars.google.com) They could do the moon as well if they wanted. |
Because Google Earth is after all a commerical (for profit) product. They wouldn't make money of off Mars and Google Earth and Mars sounds really uncatchy. |
And instead of abandoning the Mars photos, I guess they created a site for using that data. |
They haven't update the Mars map since June. |
Google never did assimilate up the Keyhole brand as fast as they did with other brands, didn't they? The old webpage is still around, the files are still called KML/KMZ (although that might be hard to change by now), there are links in Google Earth's help center to "keyhole.com" (just search around for "keyhole"), the Google Earth Community board is still at bbs.keyhole.com, etc. Makes you wonder if the Keyhole people aren't quite assimilating into the Google company/culture... |
Mrrix32 said:
>> They could do the moon as well if they wanted.
You mean like this: http://moon.google.com ? |
interesting find there zmarties!
They are even trying to sell the personal edition on that page. Maybe, they had some different ideas in mind at that point of time and then later forgot to take off the webpage.
<b>Makes you wonder if the Keyhole people aren't quite assimilating into the Google company/culture...</b>
Do you think that they'll have a chance or will be given an option to do so? |
<<You mean like this: moon.google.com ?>>
No I ment in Google Earth, I knew about that page already, it's just that Keyhole didn't have the moon (well I don't think it did) |
