Saturday 31 May 2008

Google Earth Embeddable In Internet Browsers

Google has announced a new version of its powerful Google Earth program that would allow third party sites to embed it on their web pages in the same way that Google Maps are used by over 150,000 websites.

The program allows users to get a birds-eye view of the planet and fly over points of interest. Until now users had to download special software to use the program, but the new version can be used through a browser.

The announcement was made overnight at the company's largest ever conference for outside software developers, which was seen as underscoring Google's goal of integrating its services deep into third party websites.