Google Earth has always been educational, letting people learn about the landscapes of places and countries they've never seen in person. Thanks to the addition of a Google News layer, Google Earth will now also let its users keep up with current events.
Clicking on "Layers" and then "Gallery" within Google Earth will lead you to the Google News addition. From there, use of the "Zoom" button should bring up stories concerning as broad or narrow an area as you please.
Frank Taylor notes, "What's really interesting here is that Google is using new advanced search techniques to determine whether a story applies to that specific location. For example, I don't see any Paris, France stories appearing over Paris, Texas (or vice versa)."It seems Google is conquering all sorts of issues with this release. The only possible problem is that learning about the average news story's subject is likely to take some of the fun out of using Google Earth.
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