Googlified

Google today announced that they have agreed to acquire long time Google Earth partner, Spain based “location aware photo sharing website” Panoramio.

Here are some information about the up coming acquisition…

Q. Why is Google planning to acquire Panoramio?
A. The acquisition of Panoramio will incorporate that website, its underlying technology, its content, developers, and user community into the Google Geo product mix. Panoramio will add interesting, useful content to Google products and will bolster Google’s engineering and technical resources.

Q. How will Panoramio be integrated into Google?
A. It’s too early to say exactly how Panoramio’ s technology will be integrated into Google, but our team will work to improve the experience of end users. For now, Google Earth users will continue to see Panoramio as a default layer in Google Earth.

What I am seeing here is that, after the acquisition, Google will add features to Google Earth and probably Google Maps to allow users to upload photos to Picasa Web Albums, to compete with Flickr and Zooomr.

Trivia:

• Passed One Million Geolocated Photos (3/19/2007)
• 300,000 users (3/19/2007)
• 4 million unique visitors (2/2007)
• 30 million page views (2/2007)
• 2 Gb online photo storage per user
• Available in 32 languages
• Haochi is user No.516010
• With over 2,480,000 photos uploaded as of today

I am wondering what happened to their blog’s style sheet…