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Unbelievable, but today is the 4th anniversary of the launch of Google Sightseeing! We shan't bore you with a potted history - instead we're revisiting a couple of sights from this day in 2005 to see how things have changed.…

Today we're embarking on a brand new journey. After long negotiations with Britain's national mapping agency, we're extremely pleased to announce that from today the website previously known as Google Sightseeing is to become ORDNANCE SURVEY SIGHTSEEING. Ordnance Survey is…

Yes people, it's finally here. UK Street View has arrived. We will update this post as news develops! UK news agencies looking for comment can get in touch via our contact form Street View has arrived here in the UK…

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of our first foreign language translations of Google Sightseeing, when we launched Google Sightseeing Français translated by Julien Gremillot, and Google Sightseeing Italiano translated by Alexei Popov. Many congratulations to Julien…

Over the weekend Google rolled out another major image update to Google Earth. Frank at the GEarth Blog is tracking the updates, and has so far spotted changes all over the place! Scotland, China, Africa, South Korea, Mongolia, Iceland, Sweden,…

FINAL UPDATE: We've now found enough writers and aren't looking for any more submissions at this time. However we will post another post in the future if we should require any more help! Google Sightseeing has been running since April…