#google camel

Will Google's very high tech way to map cities, streets and space, it chose the most conventional solution to map vast amounts of desert land. We've normally see the multi-camera setup on top cars along EDSA (spotted one last year here) in January this year when Google formally introduced Street View in the Philippines. We've also seen the Trekker which can be mounted at the back of a person like a backpack (Google used this to map a walking tour of Intramuros). For other regions like the desert, Google picked a camel. There was some sort of mass panic last night when Google was spewing a warning "this site may harm your computer" on all their search results. People search on Google were shocked and confused as if the search engine itself was hacked. Connie took a screenshot from her browser of what turned out to be human error from some engineers over at Google: The incident happened sometime between 6:30 a.m. Google flags search results with the message "This site may harm your computer" if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. Read more in our articles including "Google Camel: Google Maps Street View for the Desert" and "The day Google broke the Web".