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"chase a dream of changing the way directions are consumed in India and globally" - Isn't it a hollow claim ?. Directions were always given in india by landmark

"chase a dream of changing the way directions are consumed in India and globally" - Isn't it a hollow claim ?. Directions were always given in india by landmarks and it's not your firm which has invented it. So trying to take credit for it doesn't sound too good. In what way did google steal your idea?. It's an idea even kids in devoloping countries know of. and google need not even see your site to realise that the lanamark system is the one that works in this part of the world. Sory, to sound diffrent. But I don't see this point standing.

paraschopra 17y ago
I think what they are angry about is that Google claims to be the first one to do that (when their startup has been doing this for long) and since Google is so well knows the world is thinking they made a local (India specific) innovation.
- bigbang 17y ago
  Yahoo! India maps version has been having it for over a year or two now, which I have used myself few times.
  - gpiyush 17y ago
    That's a great point. Why didn't RouteGuru raised a voice against Yahoo? Let me explain: 1. Yahoo din't talk to RouteGuru team before the launch. 2. Yahoo also din't come up with any false story either and there team did mention about RouteGuru in one of their Blogs. I urge you guys to understand the point of disappointment well.
gpiyush 17y ago
No! it's not a hollow claim. 1. We're talking about the technology invention not the concept and RouteGuru pioneered this technology. Also there's a process in which the landmark intelligence is generated which is legible for a patent as well and RouteGuru has filed one. 2. Why Globally? In many countries, landmark intelligence can fundamentally change the way solutions extend directions today i.e. "Street name based directions", which is a very traditional style. 3. I'll encourage you to read the post again. All we felt sad about was that Google did talk to us, learnt whole lot about Landmark intelligent directions from us and eventually it comes up with a lofty story on how did they figure out the problem, terming it as their own invention and without patronizing RouteGuru at all. We wouldn't have raised our voice if at all RouteGuru could get a single mention anywhere.
- alain94040 17y ago
  All we felt sad about was that Google did talk to us, learnt whole lot about Landmark intelligent directions from us and eventually it comes up with a lofty story on how did they figure out the problem, terming it as their own invention and without patronizing RouteGuru at all Can you prove that? How do you know that they didn't truly come up with the idea on their own? There are thousands of possible ways this thing played out. Maybe the discussions you had were after some people at Google started having that idea. Maybe the people you met had never had that idea, but another employee in the next cubicle was already working on it for months. You don't know how it all worked out. Parallel inventions are common place, especially in this case, since it seems that the idea was fairly obvious and in widespread use in India.

paraschopra 17y ago

I think what they are angry about is that Google claims to be the first one to do that (when their startup has been doing this for long) and since Google is so well knows the world is thinking they made a local (India specific) innovation.

bigbang 17y ago
Yahoo! India maps version has been having it for over a year or two now, which I have used myself few times.
- gpiyush 17y ago
  That's a great point. Why didn't RouteGuru raised a voice against Yahoo? Let me explain: 1. Yahoo din't talk to RouteGuru team before the launch. 2. Yahoo also din't come up with any false story either and there team did mention about RouteGuru in one of their Blogs. I urge you guys to understand the point of disappointment well.

gpiyush 17y ago

No! it's not a hollow claim. 1. We're talking about the technology invention not the concept and RouteGuru pioneered this technology. Also there's a process in which the landmark intelligence is generated which is legible for a patent as well and RouteGuru has filed one. 2. Why Globally? In many countries, landmark intelligence can fundamentally change the way solutions extend directions today i.e. "Street name based directions", which is a very traditional style. 3. I'll encourage you to read the post again. All we felt sad about was that Google did talk to us, learnt whole lot about Landmark intelligent directions from us and eventually it comes up with a lofty story on how did they figure out the problem, terming it as their own invention and without patronizing RouteGuru at all. We wouldn't have raised our voice if at all RouteGuru could get a single mention anywhere.

alain94040 17y ago
All we felt sad about was that Google did talk to us, learnt whole lot about Landmark intelligent directions from us and eventually it comes up with a lofty story on how did they figure out the problem, terming it as their own invention and without patronizing RouteGuru at all Can you prove that? How do you know that they didn't truly come up with the idea on their own? There are thousands of possible ways this thing played out. Maybe the discussions you had were after some people at Google started having that idea. Maybe the people you met had never had that idea, but another employee in the next cubicle was already working on it for months. You don't know how it all worked out. Parallel inventions are common place, especially in this case, since it seems that the idea was fairly obvious and in widespread use in India.