Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality – The Essential Application's Creation Story from Keyhole

by Bill Kilday

Keyhole started, barely, in 1999. It ran out of cash, essentially, in 2002. It was resuscitated by CNN and In-Q-Tel (the venture capital arm of the CIA) in 2003. And by 2004, it was bought by another five-year-old company. That company was Google.