Google had bought a company called Keyhole with the CIA as their partner - Keyhole was the company that created what is now Google Earth & Google Maps.
They are in everything
It sure seems so. The CIA is partners with all of the tech companies and Google appears to own half the world.
Praying mightily that POTUS, Q and team can rid us of this monster.
Google is Clown Country...
Not actually griping too much: I'm glad to have good ol' KML available when doing archaeological (and other) research using Google Earth...
Keyhole was one of the first high resolution sattelite imagery systems. It was still classified when i was in school and my professor of Interpretation of Aerial Photography worked on it.
Defense Mapping Agency and the intel groups usually vacuumed up about 1/2 of the graduates of the Geography dept at my school (JMU).