Speaking of the Microsoft-Google Game of Internet Risk, Bing Adds More Square Kilometers in Maps [BoomTown]
Friday, March 5th, 2010
In one of the more interesting battlefields of the multi-front war between Google and Microsoft , Bing Maps today added what it calls its “largest imagery update to date, adding 6.7 million square kilometers of new imagery.” That includes from the Russian Federation, Australia, Mexico and most places in the United States where there is existing black-and-white imagery, as well as bird’s-eye imagery for Sweden. The ongoing innovations to online mapping by both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) has been a boon to consumers, who are getting increasingly cool and substantive looks at our world. In February, Microsoft debuted a series of eye-candy features in its ongoing oneupmanship with Google, with a new series of enhancements to its spatial search offerings.
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Speaking of the Microsoft-Google Game of Internet Risk, Bing Adds More Square Kilometers in Maps [BoomTown]
