Ingenious uses of Google

A few weeks ago I read about a couple of guys that broke into an amusement park in the US. The article quotes:

The burglars tried to disable a security camera by repeatedly spraying it with WD-40 — it only cleaned the lens — and spent an hour and 15 minutes trying to open three safes, apparently unaware that some types require the dial to be turned two or three times. They finally did a Google search for “how to open a safe” and “how to crack a safe” on a computer in the next room.

So thanks to Google, these two idiots managed to get away with $12000. Sure, not something Google is probably proud to be associated with, but it does provide yet another practical use for Google.

You can read the full article here

This next one is a little more “above board” but still very ingenious – a pool cleaner used Google Earth to find the neighborhoods with the most pools and then created a targeted marketing campaign for those addresses.

The article is here.

To give an example of how easy it is to use Google Earth, the clip below shows that even the US President George W. Bush has used “The Google”…