When Google launched their weather update service, I had wondered why they chose Wunderground which was restricted to the US. I was wrong about Wunderground being a US only service, which makes Google’s choice of not providing updates for all countries all the more puzzling. The point of this post is that I now know why they chose Wunderground over the more popular Weather Channel.
Larry Page recently spoke to the graduating class of the University of Michigan and a student recorded the talk (Slashdotted here). I finally got around to listening to that speech and Larry Page mentions how his friend Alan Steremberg, the co-founder of Wunderground and he “basically downloaded the whole web” and did other cool stuff. So, there was no other choice really!
Another useless bit of trivia filed away…