Google Second Earth?
We’ve been hearing rumours of super secret project by Google to create a virtual world based on Google Earth. Presumably it will be along the lines of Second Life, the phenomenally successful online world where between 1 and 3 million (depending who you talk to) players or residents meet and interact with other – well, it keeps them off the streets. Anyway, Google’s interest in this area is not as far-fetched as it sounds, Google Earth has been steadily evolving and recent additions to version 4, like Sketchup 3D graphics, which can be used to create buildings, makes it all sound quite plausible. It would certainly be a very attractive proposition for the search giant and the potential for advertising and cross-linking with its other services must be enormous. Of course, it’s still only a rumour but in the past they’ve had a habit of coming true, we shall see…
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