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"Google had never done anything in the Amazon before, but it made perfect sense"*

Category: Blogosphere • Film, Video & Music • Maps • Science • Science in Culture & Policy • Web 2.0, New Media, and Gadgets
Posted on: November 1, 2009 7:17 PM, by Jessica Palmer

*That's the Amazon rainforest - not Amazon.com!

Check out this interview from MAKE with Google's Rebecca Moore, who helped an Amazon chief use Google Earth to fight illegal logging.

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Hooray for Google! Modernization usually leads to the dissolution and eventual destruction of indigenous cultures. How wonderful to see technology being used to help preserve resources and traditional ways of life for a change.

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Posted by: Mylasticus | November 2, 2009 12:43 AM