The interactive weather results

Earlier this year, we introduced interactive weather information in mobile search results and now this feature is available in 33 more languages. Now when you search for ‘météo’, ‘tempo’, ‘날씨’, or ‘weather’ in your language, you’ll see the current temperature, humidity level and wind speed for your location. You’ll also get an overall forecast and the weather outlook for the next few days. To see weather conditions at various times throughout the day, move the slider across the next 12 hrs; that way you’ll know if you’ll need a light jacket in the afternoon or perhaps an umbrella in the evening.

 

Give it a try by searching Google for ‘weather’ in your language on your Android or iOS mobile device.

Just When You Began to Think the Front Range Was All That…

They roll this out…

This afternoon, I sat through the “Collaboration Panel” discussion. The panel was made of of a few people representing state, regional and local governments and well as utilities and academia. Almost uniformly, there was a fear (yes, I mean fear) of crowdsourcing that was best summed up by the following statement:

“Crowdsourcing presents a vulnerability to us.”

Fear of accurate maps?  I wish I was there to see who could have this backward stance, but it doesn’t really matter.  The tide is against them and in time they will be washed away.  If there wasn’t a better reason to have SOTM 2011 in Denver, I can’t think of anything else.  These folks need help and if the Front Range is the great hope for the USA, we are screwed.

Can’t find my way home because the map isn’t crowdsourced!