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When Google ditched its desktop Earth app in favor of a web-only experience, it said it was "almost ready" to work on Firefox and other browsers. That was nearly three years ago, but Google has ...

Google Maps and Earth have revolutionized how we see the world. Google Maps navigates unknown cities in real time, and Google Earth operates on a larger scale. Google Earth takes us on an immersive ...

Google Earth has certainly come a long way since it launched in 2005 as a downloadable program to set up on your desktop. The team behind the application announced today that the 3D map of the planet ...

Earth Day is coming up this weekend, and to celebrate, Google Earth received a major update today to version 9. This version is again designed to run in a Web browser (just Chrome for now), but ...

Chromium-based Microsoft Edge users who try to use Google Earth are welcomed by an error message and a link directing them to download Google's Chrome web browser ...

Why it's Google's greatest achievement to date... Who would have thought maps could be so much fun? I've always been fascinated by travel and able to lose myself in maps and the potential they promise ...

Google runs one of the most impressive 3D mapping tools available. It's a reliable go-to for planet zooming, location finding, and basic geo-analysis. But, unlike Google Maps, Google doesn't market it ...

I’ve been considering writing some new posts (just a few now and then) about what’s been going on with further development of Google Earth applications (for mobile, the web, desktop, and VR), and for ...

Google Earth is making a significant change to its product, with the addition of content creation tools that allow anyone to create maps and stories for its platform. The feature is an expansion of ...

A beta version of Google's popular Earth browsing application has been released for Linux. Google Earth allows users to navigate across the globe, and view detailed satellite imagery of places and ...