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June 3rd, 2007 | 
Author: Google has bought Panoramio Photo Sharing for an undiscosed sum (but probably for a few billion $$$)
Panoramio lets users publish and locate photos via Google Maps and Google Earth and allows other users to view them based on location. Panoramio’s database already contains over one million photos.
Here is the statement on Panoramio’s homepage:
“Today, we are pleased to announce the planned acquisition of Panoramio by Google. This acquisition is a great opportunity for Panoramio uploaders to leverage Google’s reach, increasing the exposure of their photographs to photophiles around the world and for viewers to choose from a larger universe of photographs as Panoramio becomes more widely known. We hope to close the acquisition in mid to late June of 2007. Got questions? Go to Q&A to learn more.”
The purchase of Panaromio allows the Google to ramp up its’s photo sharing technology and strategically repositions the search giant to regain some battle ground lost to Yahoo as a resut of it’s purchase of the popular photosharing site flickr.
I’ve given Panoramio a try and its actually a very cool tool. Its very easy to register an account, with no email verification required (although the big G will soon change that). The interface is also very user friendly, allowing you to upload, tag and map images in seconds.
Try it out if you haven’t already.
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