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Google now Tracks Flights
In this week's creepy chapter of Big Brother Watching You, Google has just started supporting searches for airplanes. Not carriers websites or airplane photos, airplanes currently up in the sky.I suppose the technology has been around for a while; flightaware has semi-accurate flight routes if you ever want to see how you got from point A to B. It's just that Google has now made checking the location of your boss over the Atlantic easier than checking your email.
All you have to do is search by the carrier and the number. In the above photo, I typed NW49 into Google and it gave me three options: Expedia, Travelocity and FBOweb as tracking agents. FBOweb supports tracking over Google Earth, which is pretty neat if you have it installed, but for the bulk of you who just want to know when you have to pick up your friend at the airport, the others should do just fine.
Happy stalking!
Filed under: Airlines, Airports, Internet Tools
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jon Oct 9th 2007 12:43PM
Good idea, but it only works in the US.
Ace Oct 16th 2007 2:48AM
Its really a cool thing about google.
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Dale Oct 11th 2007 1:19AM
This information has been available for a long time. Shortly after 9/11, I worked on some software to work with a data feed from the FCC and plot the courses of aircraft.
Google has nothing to do with tracking the flights, they are just providing access to services others have already created.