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Event · Maps and location

Google buys Keyhole, maker of 3D maps (2004)

Keyhole, a Mountain View company founded in 2001, made a program where users typed an address and saw an image of the place, zooming from space to street level, tilting and rotating the view. After the purchase, Google cut the price of the Keyhole 2 LT version.

There is no official image with documented origin for this record yet. The museum prefers showing no image to using one of uncertain origin.

October 27, 2004

Keyhole acquisition

Event · Maps and location · Concluded

sources · timeline 2000–2004

Interpretive reconstruction · Classic serif Early-2000s conventions: white background, small sans-serif text, dense blue links. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

  • October 27, 2004 Announcement · exact date [1]

What the sources say

ClaimRecordConfidenceSources
New Keyhole 2 LT price From $69.95 to $29.95 2 · Single primary source [1] primary
Purchase price Not disclosed 2 · Single primary source [1] primary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

No archived capture has been located for this record yet.

Sources

  1. Google Acquires Keyhole Corp — Google (press release), October 27, 2004. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

  • Documented link to Google Earth (2005–2009 block)

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Google Earth” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"Google buys Keyhole, maker of 3D maps (2004)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/aquisicao-keyhole-2004/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: aquisicao-keyhole-2004 · Reviewed on November 2, 2026