Draft'ish 3D rendering of Taft

Microsoft’s response to Google’s maps takes a fundamentally different approach to giving the user a better idea of where they are. Instead of going around the city with a car and taking pictures of everything, bing maps used planes to survey over 300 cities from different angles and mapped them into a bird’s eye view of the city. This approach provides a middle ground between a satellite view and a street view.

Now you have 4 different ways of looking at your favorite school, bird’s eye view, street view, satellite, and 3d. Oh, did i forget to mention 3d? Silly me. With the information gathered from the satellites and planes, it is not hard to imagine how a company could build 3d models out of buildings, Including our own school. The downside is that you have to use Internet Explorer and download a plug-in for it.

Now if only we could see what is inside the school.

It seems that Microsoft has managed to stir up some fuss about its new search engine. Sites such as Blind Search and bing vs Google have been the result of the popular demand for an effective way to tell them apart. However, for most popular search terms the results seem to be almost exactly the same in a slightly different order.