This page documents some of the worldwide articles that have been written about Google Sightseeing.
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8th May 2008 - Boing Boing
The world’s most popular blog also links to our Street View Sabotage story.7th May 2008 - News.com
CNET’s News Blog is the first to pick up our Street View Sabotage story.4th May 2008 - Olhar Digital This Brazilian web portal put together this video piece about Brazilian locations that have featured on Google Sightseeing. (Translation of introductory text, and direct link to embedded flash movie)
2nd April 2008 - Symmetry Vol 5 Issue 1
“Labs from space” - The physics magazine for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center starts off looking at our entries on particle accelerators but get caught up looking at naked sunbathers instead.6th February 2008 - Geek Sugar
“Website of the day” - The geek blog for girls recommends Google Sightseeing as website of the day, whilst accusing us of having a “major jones for Google Earth”.17th January 2008 - New York Post
“When Botanists, Journalists and Google Geeks Collide” - Mike Nizza enjoys our “shouting media criticism” relating to the Mysterious Self-Destructing Palm Tree story.14th October 2007 - The Sunday Post
Bob Smyth writes about Google Sightseeing and some of our favourite finds. PDF scan courtesy The Sunday Post.9th August 2007 - thelondonpaper
Blogging arm of the London based newspaper admit their Google Sightseeing fandom and link to our bizarre traffic accident scene.6th August 2007 - Fox 26
FOX 26’s “My Tech Guy” Doug Delony features Google Sightseeing as his on-air “Site of the Day” and also blogs about us.26th June 2007 - Wired
Google Sightseeing is mentioned in the article “Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World”.21st June 2007 - Collective
Collective, the interactive culture magazine, is grateful for our Street View coverage.30th May 2007 - BBC Radio Five Live Drive
James speaks on live radio about the launch of Google’s Street View service.7th April 2007 - The Mail on Sunday & Daily Record
The newspapers both re-print our Trampoline story from a few months ago.1st April 2007 - San Francisco Chronicle
A whole new way to look at the world - A summary of Google Earth mentions Google Sightseeing and some of the sights we’ve featured.8th February 2007 - Telegraph
Sightseeing from your sofa - Francisca Kellett picks her favourites from recent Google Sightseeing entries.6th February 2007 - Pods and Blogs
The Blog and Podcast themed weekly radio show speaks to James about India’s efforts to blur images in Google Earth.23rd January 2007 - New York Post
ABOVE & BEYOND - A two page spread in the New York post talks about the site and features selected entries from our book Off the Map: The Most Amazing Sights on Earth as Seen by Satellite.8th January, 2007 - The Metro
The Google Sightseeing fans at free newspaper “The Metro” pick up our story of rude crop art.7th January, 2007 - The LA Times
Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Neil writes an in-depth article about Google Sightseeing and the whole satellite sightseeing phenomenon.7th October, 2006 - Mansized.co.uk
Five-star review from the online men’s magazine.Late September, 2006 - Everywhere
Our Topless sunbather story goes global, with thousands of Diggs, a Register article, print articles in Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet and British Newspaper The Metro, and video mentions on Kevin Rose’s Diggnation Video Podcast (starting at about 27:30) and NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.14th August, 2006 - San Francisco Chronicle
Jon Carroll goes looking for mystery in China but gets caught up reading through the archives of Google Sightseeing.9th February, 2006 - The News Tribune
Jason Hagey writes about a Tacoma store owner who found fame in Google Local and includes a few quotes from James.18th January, 2006 - The Boston Globe
Starting with the Rowing on the Charles River the Boston Globe recommends getting lost in the Google Sightseeing archives.13th November, 2005 - BBC News 24 - Click Online
Read The Article or Watch the Show - High / Low (Skip to about 17:20)2nd November, 2005 - PC Magazine
Google Sightseeing was mentioned in the print article Journey to the Center Of Google Earth and an online extra article links to some of PC Magazine’s favorite Google Sightseeing posts.October, 2005 - Orange Technology Email
The Orange monthly technology email for October 2005 is devoted to Google Sightseeing.21st October, 2005 - IDG Now! (Portugal)
The team at IDG Now! discover Google Sightseeing and have a go themselves (Translation).17th October, 2005 - Boing Boing
Probably the world’s most popular blog links to Jesus in a Sand Dune.August 2005 - Feedster Top 500
Feedster ranks Google Sightseeing as the 187th Most Popular Blog.15th August, 2005 - About.com Article
Wendy Boswell highlights her favourite entries in “Google SightSeeing Redux”.20th June, 2005 - Time Magazine
Maryanne Murray Buechner lists Time’s 50 coolest websites of 2005. Whilst we’re not in the actual top 50, we are linked to in the description of Google Maps.10th June, 2005 - Kottke.org
Quick link for the popular American Blogger.8th June, 2005 - Slashdot
We get Slashdotted from an article on a related Google Maps Hack.4th May, 2005 - Newsweek on MSNBC
Brad Stone writes about the launch of the satellite data on Google Maps and interviews Alex.27th April, 2005 - Weekly Planet
Joe Bardi and Max Linksy outline the Google Maps phenomenon and interview James.17th April, 2005 BBC News The BBC News links to Google Sightseeing as part of a news story on the Google Maps launch.
15th April, 2005 - Google Blog
Mentioned (and praised) on the Official Google Blog.14th April, 2005 - The Guardian
Listed in the “Web Watch” column of the The Guardian.April 2005 - Del.icio.us (Also here, and here too)
Soon after launch Google Sightseeing gets hundreds of Del.icio.us links and for a few days we top the Most Popular Page. As of 23 May ‘08 there’s a total of 4540 links at the three different URLs.
