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Google Sightseeing now Available in Six Languages!

Today we’re extremely proud to be launching three new translations of Google Sightseeing: Dutch, German and Spanish! These three new blogs join our successful existing translations of French and Italian, so you can now come sightseeing around Google Earth with…

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Wednesday, 9th July 2008

Desert Week Roundup

And so, we come to end of our first ever desert week. It turns out that we only featured two actual deserts over the week, and we even failed to mention the world's largest desert! Despite these we think it's…

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Saturday, 21st June 2008

Loads of new areas for Google Street View

Last week, we celebrated Street View's first anniversary with our Top 10 unseen posts. Google have now joined in the celebrations by adding a massive 37 new areas. All the new areas are still US based, but the update does…

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Wednesday, 11th June 2008

Google Earth Web Plugin Released

The newly released Google Earth Web Plugin allows you to access the 3D globe of Google Earth, right within your browser. You can give it a go right now as we've enabled the Google Earth mode on our map page1.…

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Wednesday, 28th May 2008

New Imagery in Google Earth (May ’08)

Just over a month since the last update Google have announced new imagery for Google Earth and Google Maps. The full list of what's new is available on Google Lat Long. If you'd like to be kept bang up-to-date with…

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Wednesday, 14th May 2008

New Google Earth 4.3 Released

Yesterday Google released an updated version of Google Earth for PC, Mac or Linux. Google Earth blog has posted a (http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/04/video_demo_of_google_earth_43.html) highlighting some of the new features, which include: Day/Night mode showing the local time sunrise and sunset. Street Views…

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Wednesday, 16th April 2008

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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