{"id":224,"date":"2005-05-24T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:44","slug":"gates_debuts_virtual_earth_search_servic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/05\/24\/gates_debuts_virtual_earth_search_servic\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates Debuts &#8216;Virtual Earth&#8217; Search Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technewsworld.com\/story\/software\/43317.html\">TechNewsWorld<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a move to compete with rival Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft is planning to launch MSN Virtual Earth, a service designed to take local search ePilot Search Engine Advertising &#8211; Click here to add your site today. to new depths, according to the software giant.<br \/>\nCompany chairman Bill Gates offered 3D conference attendees a sneak peak of his vision for Virtual Earth in Carlsbad, Calif. yesterday. Microsoft will debut the new service this summer, complete with 45-degree-angle views of buildings and neighborhoods and street maps to help users find local businesses.<br \/>\n&#8220;MSN Virtual Earth sets forth a new search frontier that extends traditional local searching into a deeply immersive search experience, where consumers see what it&#8217;s like to be in a location and explore what they can do there,&#8221; said Stephen Lawler, general manager of the MapPoint business unit at Microsoft. &#8220;The unique aerial imagery from Pictometry enables Microsoft to deliver a one-of-a-kind immersive local search experience for our customers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TechNewsWorld: In a move to compete with rival Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft is planning to launch MSN Virtual Earth, a service designed to take local search ePilot Search Engine Advertising &#8211; Click here to add your site today. to new depths, according to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}