Google To Begin Unmanned News Coverage

In January I had a post about Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s interview with Money about the search giant wanting to help the newspaper industry out of hard times. It seemed that several daily newspapers couldn’t wait while Google was been dragging it’s feet coming up with a plan and a few have been forced to close, file bankruptcy or slow production.

Today I have stumbled across Google’s master plan to supplement the possible drop of original news. Beginning immediately Google will roll out the Google News Drone. These General Atomics Aeronautical Systems manufactured unmanned aircraft will be equipped with Nikon D3Xs and Sony HVR-Z7U 1080i HDV Camcorder to record the scene of the breaking news.

Here is an exclusive photograph obtained of the new Google News Drone.

The Google News Drone will be dispatched by a new Google search algorithm made especially for the breaking news. The algorithm will be a blended mix of Google, Twitter and cellphone technologies. Whenever several people send out a Twitter message using the hashtag #NewsDrone, a GPS search will begin to find the location on Google Maps and route a Google News Drone in that direction. In Max Headroom fashion the News Drone will begin recording and broadcasting the news event. The existing newspaper will be able to use the Google News Drone generated news if they enter into an exclusive agreement with Google to run only Adsense advertising on their websites. Link to more information.

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