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Google Earth : You can see the World from Your PC

Google has a fantastic, new, free program for those of you with a broadband connection or DSL Connection. It's called Google Earth. And it's just flat amazing.

First, how you get Google Earth

Getting Google Earth is simple. Just go to google.com, and click on More When the next screen opens, scroll down until your see Earth in the Tools category. When you click on Earth, a window titled Google Earth –Explore, Search and Discover will open Scroll down to and click on Get Google Earth (Free Version). Click on Download Google Earth and follow the directions to install the program on your computer.

What you will see

When Google Earth opens, you will see Earth as seen from space, a search box and two panels labeled “Places” and “Layers.” You can ignore these for now and just type in an address in the search box. You need to include, the street address, city and state, with these three elements separated by commas. For example, Bandung, Indonesia.

What happens next

After you've zoomed in on your house (or whatever address you typed in the search box), you can pick another address or a place such as the Grand Canyon. Google will do “fly over” to the new address or location just as if you were flying over the globe in a very fast jet plane.