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Elusive Submarines

While on holiday we missed the news of a new Chinese nuclear submarine being spotted on Google Earth. Not much is known about the new class of Ballistic Missile Submarine, which is called the Jin-class or Type 094, but the…

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Tuesday, 17th July 2007

Street View Roundup

The interest in Google's new Street View mode has been incredible, and there's been coverage of it everywhere1 - meaning that lots of other sites have posted stuff before we did, including: E.T. spotted in a field - with a…

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Friday, 1st June 2007

It’s not big, or clever

Written on a old pier, just off Manhattan island, are these two pieces of, um, "word art". The left hand piece seems to say "SUCK D**K" while the other item looks like the rather confusing "F**K ME SAFE". What on…

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Friday, 23rd February 2007

Top 10 Sports on Google Earth

With high-resolution images all over the globe, Google Earth has captured many sporting events actually in-progress, so today we proudly present - The Top 10 different sports you can actually see people playing on Google Earth! As a bonus, we've…

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Tuesday, 13th February 2007

Thing Attacks New York

Watch out below! It looks like Thing (you know, the severed hand from the Addams Family) has grown thousands of times in size and is attacking New York City! Run for the hills! Aiiieeeeee! Hang on, turns out that the…

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Tuesday, 23rd January 2007

The Big Duck

It's been a long time coming to this site, but finally it's time to visit the *world famous**, Long Island New York Big Duck! Seemingly adored by Long island residents, the Big Duck was built in 1931 by a duck…

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Wednesday, 10th January 2007

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

Like this site? We published a photo book of the best entries, you should buy a copy.