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Google Releases Earth to Beta

Posted by Zonk on from the earth-to-go-live-in-2000-years dept.

Cros13 writes "Google has released a beta of it's Google Earth software to subscribers of the existing Keyhole service. New features include 3D models of buildings in selected cities, input from your gps receiver and a better search system. I have posted screenshots here and here." This product is in competition with Microsoft's Virtual Earth, as we reported earlier.

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  1. Those bastards... by Ancil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I can't believe people just sit down and take this. WAKE UP, Google is leveraging their dominant position in search engines to corner online mapping!

    Oh wait. Providing a free, useful new service to consumers is only wrong when Microsoft does it. Sorry, I forgot.