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Google Sightseeing v3 (beta)

Do not adjust your internet devices – you may (or may not) be seeing our brand new design for 2010! We’re doing some testing of the new design before a full launch, so if you are seeing our new design…

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Tuesday, 8th June 2010

Site News: Brief Spanish Lesson

Apologies to anyone who tried to view Google Sightseeing today and was inadvertently redirected to our excellent Spanish site. Everything is now back to normal, but some RSS readers may still be showing cached Spanish content for a few more…

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Saturday, 15th May 2010

Now We Are Five

Today Google Sightseeing is celebrating its fifth birthday! We will be marking the occasion by eating cake and manically trying to finish our latest redesign of the site (which is, typically, late). Last year, we summarised the site’s first ever…

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Tuesday, 6th April 2010

NOW LIVE: Street View update covers 96% of UK roads

In an absolutely enormous update, Google have in the last few minutes launched brand new Street View images for the whole of the UK – bringing the total coverage to a reported 96% of all UK roads. The images cover…

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Thursday, 11th March 2010

Top Ten Google Sightseeing Posts 2009

Another year is winding up here at Google Sightseeing, so here’s a look back at the most popular posts from 2009. 1. Top 10 Street Views, April 2009 Following an absolutely massive launch of Street View imagery across Europe in…

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Wednesday, 23rd December 2009

Streetview arrives in Mexico, Hawaii, updates in Netherlands, Spain

Another month, another absolutely massive Street View update. The big news is that Google has launched a wealth of imagery for previously uncovered Mexico; but they’ve also added imagery to Hawaii for the first time, added many new places in…

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Tuesday, 10th November 2009
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Welcome to Google Sightseeing

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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Best of Google Sightseeing

The Futuro House

The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…

Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece

The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…

Crazy SCUBA Guys Chase Street View

Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…

Definitely a duck (maybe)

Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…

Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene

The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…

Trollstigen (Troll’s path)

In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…

Recent Comments

  1. Guardian Heroes: Ok, that view from the lions gate looks amazing. I’d like to visit there someday.
  2. Mark: Guessing, from this account, that it’s Kevin Barrera. The location linked isn’t exact, but the...
  3. Alex Turnbull: Given how long the body must have lain there (long enough for the aerial photography airplane to have...
  4. Alex Turnbull: Hi Stuart, are you looking at the police officer? The victim looks pretty dead to me :(
  5. Doug: I love the joke you guys play — posting the EXACT same thing every February 2, now for the sixth year in...

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