Ask HN: What does the Google Ocean team do?

4 points by thehickmans 17y ago ↗ HN

I was out for dinner with family last night, when I noticed a group come into the restaurant wearing Google Ocean fleeces. One member of the group was carrying a laptop and some documents, from which I surmised that I was witnessing a project team dinner. Does anyone know what the Google Ocean team might be doing in the field? Could they be piloting the Google Ocean View submersible? I'm in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

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sowbug 17y ago ↗

It's a codename having nothing literally to do with water or seas. The codename is for a released product.

jcapote 17y ago ↗

And which product is that?

falsestprophet 17y ago ↗

VentureBeat reported the team has something to do with book search and digitization.

Here is more information for the curious: http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/02/what-is-googles-other-ocea...

nico78 17y ago ↗

isn't it part of Google Earth, ocean-floor mapping?

nx 17y ago ↗

Because it was THAT hard to Google it, right? http://www.google.com/search?q=google+ocean

swombat 17y ago ↗

Why spend 5 seconds googling something when you can waste hundreds of people's time with your easily-answered question?

colinplamondon 17y ago ↗

http://tinyurl.com/cdlspk

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thehickmans 17y ago ↗

Thanks for the painfully juvenile replies, guys. I was looking for something more insightful than the press releases and media coverage that turn up in search results.

swombat 17y ago ↗

Maybe you should have made that clear in your question, then. Start by explaining the research that you did and why you don't think it's the whole picture, or what else you want to know.

If you want a good answer, ask a good question.