Google Earth now equipped with Google News
Posted by Kelley Vendeland on May 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Further upping the local news stakes, Google has combined its news channel with Google Earth, mapping Google News articles according to location.
The new initiative, announced on Google's Lat Long blog, will automatically take new articles from Google News and update the map. Using Google Earth, users can choose how far to zoom in on a given part of the world, thereby regulating how local the content of the displayed articles will be.
"By spatially locating the Google News' constantly updating index of stories from more than 4,500 news sources, Google Earth now shows an ever-changing world of human activity as chronicled by reporters worldwide," said Google product manager Brandon Badger.
Google has a similar service in partnership with The New York Times, which maps NYT stories onto a Google Earth map.
Sources: CNET, Journalism.co.uk
The new initiative, announced on Google's Lat Long blog, will automatically take new articles from Google News and update the map. Using Google Earth, users can choose how far to zoom in on a given part of the world, thereby regulating how local the content of the displayed articles will be.
"By spatially locating the Google News' constantly updating index of stories from more than 4,500 news sources, Google Earth now shows an ever-changing world of human activity as chronicled by reporters worldwide," said Google product manager Brandon Badger.
Google has a similar service in partnership with The New York Times, which maps NYT stories onto a Google Earth map.
Sources: CNET, Journalism.co.uk
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