Comments on: Arab Terrorists Use Google Earth To Target Israel

By: Yoel

Yoel — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:30:28 +0000

I’m surprised nobody has thought that the terrorists might be lying. Download Google Earth and use it for yourself. For one thing, it’s not very detailed, at least outside the U.S. A local map would serve these murderers better.

Further, look around the globe on Google Earth. You may notice that many areas, even those close to one another, have dramatically different appearances in terms of plants and such. Some trees have green leaves, some red and yellow, some none at all.

Nu, you say – so the photos are a few months apart. A terrorist could still plan attacks with them! Let’s sue Google! (And the Yidn who started the company, I guess?) Here’s the thing – the satellite information used in Google Earth can be over a decade old. Some of the photos go back to 1990.

These terrorists are trying to do just that – terrify. There’s no threat from Google Earth. It’s a fun useful application by a company founded on the precept of not contributing to anything evil or immoral in any way. Google does not edit its search results. They are based entirely on statistical analysis of web traffic.

For example, if you search for “Jew”, you will sometimes see that a particular antisemitic website comes up first. Because of this, Google added a note to this and other searches explaining that they did not censor search results and that they were just as troubled by hate sites as anybody else.

By: netanlevy

netanlevy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:50:42 +0000

blurring the map makes no difference. They are not after sensitive military targets. They are after high population civilian targets. Unfortunately, those are not blurred out.

By: YWNReader

YWNReader — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:01:22 +0000

Why would they admit that? Sounds fishy to me to make a public statement that they’re using public tools to attack Israel. Sounds more like a sabotage. (And being what #4 said, it makes sense.)

By: chaptzem

chaptzem — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:44:13 +0000

someone should sue google for that

By: Boruchcha

Boruchcha — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:49:41 +0000

Google earth is a irresponsible corporation that has ties to moveon.org (blocking advertising of a republican senator degrading moveon.org, but any anti rightwing propoganda on sponsored links are fair game).

By: mdlevine

mdlevine — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:20:53 +0000

#6 – “Only the Ribono Shel Olam can help us against THIS threat.”

— and… the others threats we can handle all on our own?!?

By: Oncefrum

Oncefrum — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:03:53 +0000

Ok, I’m sure google can disable it’s features in certain locations on Earth, can’t it?

By: Flatbush Bubby

Flatbush Bubby — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:29:57 +0000

Only the Ribono Shel Olam can help us against this threat.

By: shazam

shazam — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:22:37 +0000

Given the inaccuracy of the rockets, and the limited resolution of Google Earth (some of which has been intentionally reduced), it’s not clear how much military utility this has.

It does have terrorist utility, in that it scares people into thinking the terrorists are militarily competent.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:58 +0000

It is interesting to note that Sergrei Brin & Larry Page, the co-founders of Google, as well as Eric Scmidt its CEO are all Jewish.