On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:51 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 2 March 2010 03:28, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah. Anyone know how they're doing this? It's stuff like this that > makes > > me think that a free, non-profit project is always going to be many steps > > behind the big boys when it comes to this domain. > > Google like all companies has limited growth potential with employees > alone, which is why they're trying to branch out into crowd sourcing, > they've already have one failure on this front with their attempt to > replace wikipedia. > Wikipedia is a whole different beast. It'll likely be replaced by Google when and if Google come out with a breakthrough in natural language processing. It looks like that breakthrough has already come in terms of creating a 3D model of the world. All that's left is taking lots of raw, dumb pictures. No sense in wasting manpower over something a bunch of unmanned dirigibles could do.
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