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10 Unbelievable Secret Places Google Earth Doesn’t Want You To See

-Mezzo-|3544d ago |Article|6|

WC - National secrets, shady government areas and southern fried chicken: all of these and more have been edited out of existence.

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-Mezzo-3544d ago

I never knew Google blurred stuff out like this, i wonder why.

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iamnsuperman3544d ago

Usually because of government pressure for various reasons like military bases (usually the special ones) or specific defense/research centres. Google has basically publicised where these bases are. By blurring them you just don't know what is inside them

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blue_cheese3544d ago

correct. its treated like digital fence to keep lookers out, but in reality these governments aren't putting out anything all that secretive out in the open, they just want Google to know the boundaries as well as the comfort of knowing the average joe can't can't updated satellite images of government property they don't have access to.

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ajax173544d ago

What about area 51?

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blue_cheese3544d ago

what about it? all the good stuff at Area 51 is underground lol.

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ChozenWoan3543d ago

No, all the good stuff has been moved to Warehouse 14 or sent offworld to the Alpha site via the Stargate.

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Google Earth now finally works on Firefox, Edge, and Opera web browsers

KnowTechie|1511d ago |News|0|

This isn't breaking news or anything but after a long-time coming, Google Earth now works on web browsers other than Google Chrome.

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Carmen Sandiego is back with a new globetrotting Google Earth game

KnowTechie|1799d ago |News|0|

Nostalgia is powerful and now, Google is back with another globetrotting adventure over Google Earth featuring the super thief, Carmen Sandiego.

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Google Earth 3D just squealed on one of Taiwan’s secret military bases

KnowTechie|1884d ago |News|0|

One of Taiwan’s top-secret military bases has just been exposed to the public in the latest update to Google Earth’s 3D. Yikes, not good.

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