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NEWS ABOUT: Google Earth

Google Earth stories: 26 news summaries

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Google Earth Gets a YouTube Atmosphere

New add-in lets users map videos to points on the globe

Oct 12, 07 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - A further sign that you don't need the real world so long as you have Google: the search engine company has now integrated its Google Earth map program with YouTube, the video site it bought last year. Videos location-marked on YouTube will now be available on the Google Earth's satellite... More »

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Google • Google Earth • geodata • video tagging

Navy to 'Camouflage' Swastika Building

Google Earth views revive old controversy

Sep 27, 07 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - When it was finished in 1970, officials realized a building at a San Diego Navy base looked like a swastika, the Guardian reports. But after images of the building from Google Earth sparked outrage, the Navy has decided to do something about it. The Navy will spend $600,000 to... More »

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Google Earth • Navy • Nazism

Surfers Scour Google Earth for Signs of Aviator

Internet volunteer army pores over photos in Fossett search

Sep 11, 07 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - An army of web surfers—even the guy in the next cubicle—has joined the search for missing aviator Steve Fossett. Google Earth has released fresh images of the Nevada desert, and surfers can scour chunks of wilderness for aircraft wreckage. One problem: "We're finding them left and right—... More »

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Google • Google Earth • aviation • pilot • desert • Nevada • Steve Fossett • Mechanical Turk • airplane • Amazon.com

Branson Wants Google Earth in Fossett Search

Satellite images could hold clues to aviator's disappearance

Sep 5, 07 2:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Branson said today he hopes to use Google Earth in the search for missing aviator Steve Fossett, whose small plane disappeared Monday over Nevada. The British billionaire and flying enthusiast wants to see if Google's satellite photos show where Fossett might have been heading, Reuters reports, and whether there... More »

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Richard Branson • Google Earth • disappearance • aviation • pilot • Steve Fossett • aviator

Google Takes Map Program
to the Stars

Google Sky will boot
up computer-chair
space exploration

Aug 22, 07 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Launching off of the success of Google Earth, Google launched a new program today allowing armchair astronomers to chuck the telescope and gaze at the heavens from their monitors. Google Sky will harness Hubble photos along with a database of information, and feature more than one million stars and 200... More »

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NASA • Google • Google Earth • Hubble • space • star • Google Sky • Space Agreement Act • Imaginova

Google Earth Digitizes Genocide

Internet tool used to raise awareness of atrocities in Sudan

Apr 13, 07 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google Earth has teamed up with the Holocaust Museum to bring the realities of genocide to your MacBook. "Crisis in Darfur" employs Google Earth wizardry to help users visualize the scope of the atrocities currently unfolding in Sudan. Viewers can see over 1,600 damaged and destroyed villages up... More »

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technology • media • Google • Darfur • genocide • Internet • human rights • Google Earth • Sudan • Holocaust Museum • Crisis in Darfur • humanitarian

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