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Fame

When we started this site back and April (and were immediately overwhelmed with the huge amount of interest we received), we joked about getting boingboinged, although we never imagined that it would really happen. However, after 6 months and over…

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Monday, 17th October 2005

Comment Spam

Apologies to those of you who subscribe to our comments RSS feed, which has today be plagued by a rather nasty onset of comment spam. We've cleaned it all out and tightened up our filtering so, fingers crossed, things should…

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Tuesday, 4th October 2005

Google Earth Links Are Go (Again)

As several people helpfully pointed out (we usually write this site on the Mac), the Google Earth links have been malfunctioning recently. Anyway, I've deleted some cached ones and, after a little testing, they now seem to be working again.…

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Tuesday, 27th September 2005

Aruba

Aruba is a Caribbean island that forms a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Sadly it's not in very high resolution, but I'm posting it anyway as after I get married tomorrow my new wife and I will be…

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Friday, 16th September 2005

Map Is Back

The Map is back after a long holiday in the sun, and he appears to have grown wider. Must have been all those burgers and beers.

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Saturday, 3rd September 2005

Away for the weekend!

Don't expect many posts over the next three days or so as all the Google Sightseeing admins are off to Prague for my Stag Weekend. We'll be back to normal (although possibly a little hung over) on Monday.

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Thursday, 25th August 2005

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.

Like this site? We published a photo book of the best entries, you should buy a copy.