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It's almost unbelievable (so much so that we missed it by a week), but Google Sightseeing just turned 3 years old! All the way back on the 6th of April 2005 our first post was Disney World, followed closely by…

Honest, it's not a prank! Yesterday Google announced new imagery in Google Earth covering all continents and 86 different countries. Updated: The new imagery is now available in Google maps and the (long) list of what's new has been posted.…

A Google engineer, who asked to remain anonymous, has just emailed to let us know about an amazing new secret feature in both Google Earth and Google Maps: two new satellite modes which let you see heat maps and believe…

To celebrate International Mother Language Day1 Google Sightseeing has some really big news - today, for the first time we're launching Google Sightseeing in a foreign language! Not only that but we're launching two at the same time - French…

The first imagery update of the New Year is now available in Google Earth. As usual, Google have announced the update with a scavenger hunt while Google Earth Blog, which noticed the update earlier today, has a more complete list…

The Google Lat Long blog has announced that Google has just added 12 more US cities to their street view coverage, bringing their total coverage to, um.. lots. The new cities added are as follows: Albany and Schenectady, NY Boise,…