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Google Added to Gas Pumps

posted November 7, 2007 - 3:55pm
Google Added to Gas Pumps

Starting next month, gas pumps will include an Internet connection that will have Google’s mapping service in color on a small screen. People will be able to get driving directions and look through several categories to find local landmarks, hotels, restaurants, and hospitals.

After a person selects a destination, the pump will print out the directions. Someday, they may have it where a person could type in a specific address and get directions.

In the beginning, they plan to have the service at 3,500 gas pumps and then expand if there is a more of a demand. Google wants to do this because they want to make their services available whenever and wherever people would need it.



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Wow, I hadn't heard of that

Wow, I hadn't heard of that before. Google at the gas pump. I guess you can search for where gas is cheapest and then go there.

This is ALMOST a good idea...

If you've ever been in line at a self-checkout register, you've witnessed those poor, misguided souls who cannot navigate the simplest of procedures. Woe is he who has to wait in line behind them. Now, we are going to put these people in line in front of us at the gas pump? I would rather that they had a place off to the side where these people could frustrate only themselves and not hold up the line for people who have a good grasp on technology. _______________________________________________________ "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."--George Orwell I'm getting paid to write. Find out WHY!

Wow, I hadn't heard of that

Wow, I hadn't heard of that before. Google at the gas pump. I guess you can search for where gas is cheapest and then go there.

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