Google watch update

They're at it again: MSNBC reports that Google has aquired Keyhole Corp., "a supplier of online satellite maps that allow users to zoom down to street level to specific locations". True to form, Google has not said what it plans to do with the new acquisition, but surely it will be used for Google Local. (Via Slashdot)

In other Google-related news, while driving in Mountain View the other day (which, as you might know, is where Google HQ are located), I happened to be just behind a BMW M3 with "ADSENSE" on the license plate. Considering the expense of the car and the brazen usage of the brand, I surmised that this was no peon developer. It had to be, I thought, one of the higher-ups who had a lot to do with AdSense's inception. Maybe Larry Page or Sergei Brin himself. Hmmm.