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Try it out for yourself, its accuracy is frightening.
Google looks set to release Skynet any day now ladies and gentlemen.
With all of the attention focused on their recently announced operating system, Google has released another feature for their popular Google Maps that should facilitate some of their other applications and give people using Chrome 2.0+ and Firefox 3.5 another way to find their location.
Built right into the program itself, you can now click a little dot that will show your current location based on your IP address, useful if you experience bouts of amnesia or you wake up at a computer with no recollection about how you got there.
Jokes aside, this is actually a great feature that will allow Google to more accurately display local advertisements that will fill their pockets and vaults with even more coin.
Ok, fine, let’s get serious.
While it will help with ad localization, this will make finding places from home a lot easier and if you don’t own one of those nifty things called smartphones that use GPS to determine your location, getting from place to place has never been easier.
When this writer tried it, it literally got the location to within 200 feet of the correct location which is absolutely absurd.
And scary.
That’s not all. With more and more of the web, chiefly its services and its applications becoming tailored to your specific location, little additions like this will make it much easier for them to become accessible and beneficial.
If you don’t have Chrome 2.0+ or Firefox 3.5, you can install Google Gears and it should work with your favorite browser, Safari included.
So, someday, when Google’s applications go haywire and Sky(Google)net unleashes a bunch of cops that look like Robert Patrick to our homes, at least we’ll know how it happened.
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