At first glance, this looks like an arial dogfight.
As it turns out, it’s just some shrimp boats off the Louisiana coast.
This boat remains where Hurricane Ivan left her two years ago. Zoom out and you can see more derelict boats.
Now that Google Maps has updated locally with increased resolution, I thought I would do a little cruise around the neighborhood. At first glance, you would have to think, “Wow, there sure is a pile of swimming pools around here.”
As it turns out, if you zoom in, the blue you see is actually just blue roofs!
(I really have no way of knowing how old these shots actually are, but I would bet that they are less than a year old)
I have both the Yahoo toolbar and the Google toolbar installed on my work computer’s Internet Explorer:
(Google toolbar on, Yahoo off)
(Yahoo toolbar on, Google off)
It would appear that Internet Explorer is having a bit of an identity crisis.
I count at least three different satellite angles in this Google Maps shot of New York City at Times Square. Amazing really, how they could blend all these shots together.
I’d rather save that real estate for my browser window. Besides, Fx has an extension for most of the toolbar features. Let’s take a look:
- Google Search
Fx already has a search box. Why add another? Plus, the standard search box can be configured to operate with an armload of search engines other than Google.
- Autolink
Most features already present on a current Google search.
- WordTranslator
That may be useful for some people, but not enough for me to take up space on my browser window. Besides, I have enough trouble with the English language as it is.
- AutoFill
Do you really want an extension that saves your credit card info, while transmitting other info back to Google?
- SpellCheck
This is the only feature worth having the extension on my browser. OTOH, its good brain exercise to actually crack open a dictionary once in a while.
- PageRank Display
I already have an extension that puts PR and Alexa in my status bar, again, saving browser real estate.
- Highlight Search Terms and Word Find Buttons
Hint: just press Alt/F.
Just another tool for the Google assimilation of the world, but what do I know?
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