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Now Google Aims To Help Track Dangerous Storms More Easily
Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago, Google began ramping up its efforts to display the satellite images of affected areas Google Earth and even helped build searchable databases to help people keep in touch with their loved ones. And this hurricane season, Google is making it much easier to track dangerous storms through Search results. The company has announced that it is bringing some improvements to weather forecasts and Public Alerts in Google Search. With the new improvements,searching for a particular storm or tornado might bring up the following: A map showing your location in relation to the oncoming storm Visualizations of its forecasted track, wind severity and arrival time, courtesy of NOAA Concise instructions for preparing and staying safe, cust...
Google’s Project Sunroof
This project of Google will help you in finding out whether your sunroof is ready for solar or not. Thanks to the big pushes by Elon Musk to improve the state of renewable energy through efforts to build a better battery and bring panels to more houses by way of Solar City. Americans may want solar, but Google has noticed an influx of queries into its search engine of people asking whether their home is ready for solar or not. So, an engineer at google decided to create an information tool to help make the decision easier, without consulting a number of sources. It’s called Project Sunroof and it lays out the world’s roofs in terms of solar, mapping out how much sun and shade hit homes on any given day. Developers have used the information provided by the google maps in calculating ...