Google's Next Big Land Grab Could Be, Well, Land

Google's Next Big Land Grab Could Be, Well, Land
by Joe Mandese
First search. Then display. Then offline media. Then mobile. Google's next big advertising land grab could well be real estate, and anything to do with it. In an application filed with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Thursday, Google has registered a patent claim for a new technology that would serve three-dimensional, panoramic real estate ads onto maps and other online pages when users are searching geographic regions. ...Read the whole story >>