They're phone bank operation teams with rows of volunteers reading scripts from computer screens as they ask people to come in and help.

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The frenetic rush to prepare its second reading marked the beginning of a lifelong co-operation with the voluntary sector, not bound by commercial contracts but united by mutual trust.

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It has dozens of sub-products within it, from Google Transit (public transportation, e.g. subway, information and routing), Live Traffic, StreetView (and the incredible operation that makes that happen), Local search, image recognition technology for reading street and business signs, the list goes on and on.

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