Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks
The terrorists that attacked various locations in south Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks.
Ten great Google Earth add-ons
Google Earth puts an entire planet's worth of useful, relevant, and just plain weird content at your fingertips -- with the assistance of a large library of add-ons. Here are our 10 favorites.
GeoEye imaging satellite launched
The highest resolution commercial Earth imaging satellite to date, the GeoEye-1, was launched over the weekend on a Delta-II rocket that carried the Google logo alongside the GeoEye logo on its side.
Researchers paid good money to look for cows on Google Earth
There are many, many useless things that Google Earth helps you waste time doing, and one of them is scouring the surface of our planet to find cows to look at -- in the name of research, of course.
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