Google Releases Earth to Beta

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.

Comments

It's its not it's!

[ScentCone]

And somewhere on earth there's a special place for people who can't use the apostrophe correctly. Wish I knew where that was.

Of course "their" might have been a better choice anyway.

Re:Slick!

[GweeDo]

You don't. You think adwords is the only way Google wants to make money?

Re:hmm

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

You watch Fox and CNN too much. Believe it or not, most everything can be used to commit any number of terrorist acts, but a vast majority of people just use these things for what they're intended to be used for. "X can be used for terrorism and therefore should be banned/watched/curtailed" is a recent invention of the current administration to justify pushing their agenda.

If you ban Google Earth on the ground, then also ban Hotmail (those terrorist email communications!), keyboard (they type the emails with 'em!!), batteries (they power the bombs they describe in the emails with 'em!!!), and nail clippers (they won't be able to make the bombs if their nails are too long). etc.

Stop being paranoid...