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…

If you need to shoot a movie in the desert, there's somewhere that should be top of your list: Atlas Film Studios in Morocco. Over the years it has played a part in Alexander the Great, Gladiator and Black Hawk…

Question: What would a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) car be doing in Croydon, UK with a man fixed on its roof and a giant hand spanking him on the rear? Getting on Google Sightseeing of course! According to GSS…

Today we've got a special guest post by Matt Bucher, a writer living in Austin, Texas who publishes a blog of photographic images taken from Google Street View, called Apres Garde. We love Matt's choice of images, and he agreed…

Tomorrow is World Fair Trade Day, an annual global event held by by producers, retailers and supporters of this alternative trading system.1 To celebrate, we're taking a tour of the Fair Trade Google Earth layer. Full instructions on how to…

New imagery of Shanghai provides a good look at many of the unique buildings created for Expo 2010 which opened on May 1 to showcase countries from around the world and to highlight China's largest city's emerging status as the…