Will Google dominate the world? Well, some folks think so. Think you can hide, no so fast. Google has location awareness built into everything — all maps, all operating systems, perhaps even every room in your house. You can run, you can hide . . . but Google will eventually find you.
In the future, Google will help you locate your house keys, remind you what tools you loaned to a friend, and even your care will drive itself to retrieve both. (Google Promises a Self-Driving Car in 4 years)
- Currently: 20% of all Google searches are ‘where’ queries.
- Giving Google 70% of the ‘where’ query market
- Location based services keep smartphones running.
- Cameras like trecker are attached to Google’s self driving cars
- 25 of which have logged 600,000 miles in California.
- Streetview has images in 1/4 of the world’s countries.