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July 21st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, web pioneer Google launched what could be the ultimate guide to the earth's natural satellite. Google on Monday updated its popular mapping software Google Earth with a complete map of the moon that allows you to explore craters, historic sites and human artefacts.

June 24th, 2006 France unveiled Géoportail website on Friday. It allows people to access detailed satellite images of the country and offers more detail of France than Google Earth.

March 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government is examining legal options to censor Google Earth and curb it from showing sensitive locations to prevent terror attacks such as what happened in Mumbai, a minister said Tuesday. 'We want Google Earth censored.

May 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Arizona State University (ASU) researchers and scientists have created a new feature for Google Earth 5.0, which would enable anyone, anywhere, to recommend places on Mars to photograph. Google Earth 5.0 is the popular online application that lets users tour Earth, the starry sky, and the Red Planet Mars.

February 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the red planet. Besides providing a rich, immersive three dimensional view of Mars that will aid public understanding of Mars science, the new mode, Google Mars 3D, also gives researchers a platform for sharing data similar to what Google Earth provides for Earth scientists.

May 27th, 2009 How about a free tour  to Disneyland Resort with your family this summer?  Well, I assure you it's none of those sweepstake that needs to juggle with numbers. What about a peter pan kinda tour with an on-top view of the fantabulous Disneyland? Well, when Google Search can dig out almost anything on earth, Google Earth can  offer you a virtual 3D tour of the beautiful Disneyland Resort in Paris.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

March 16th, 2009 Google Earth helped lead-tile thief on runaway robbery spree! LONDON - A thief stole 100,000 pounds worth of lead from the roofs of buildings - using Google Earth. By using the popular Internet tool, which shows aerial photographs of towns across the world, Tom Berge was able to identify museums, churches and schools across south London with lead roof tiles.

August 26th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit man claims that he spotted the Loch Ness Monster on Google Earth. The Loch Ness Monster is a creature believed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

June 26th, 2006 Google Earth rival Geoportail dies in one day. It's got to be a guiness record.

February 2nd, 2009 BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO - Academics and armchair explorers were as of Monday offered a unique insight into the world's seas through a new release of Google Earth, which now also features satellite imagery, photos and videos of the planet's oceans. The 5.0 version of the popular downloadable software was launched in San Francisco.

April 5th, 2008 TechCrunch got it from a source that Google plans to launch their BigTable, their proprietary internal database which is used for Google Search, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB Web Service. Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers at Google.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Google, the popular search engine, on Saturday conceded to have erroneously depicted some areas of Arunachal Pradesh as being parts of China following a processing of routine update of new map data on the Google Earth. It stated the mistake would be rectified soon.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - A scientist has used Google Earth to detect a spot in the Caribbean that can trigger a tsunami in the future.According to a report in New Scientist, the spot was found by Richard Teeuw from the Geohazard Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and his colleagues. "We were doing fieldwork on the volcanic island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles and initially just used Google Earth to identify good study areas," he said.

June 28th, 2006 Google is pledging to demystify the hidden workings of its search engine while refocussing on its core business. Google admitted that it has come to be perceived as overly secretive in the way it collects and orders information.