<p>You can zoom in on your house or any place on the planet......</p>
<p><a href="http://earth.google.com/%5B/url%5D">http://earth.google.com/</a></p>
<p>it hurts my eyes when it zooms!
what do you think?</p>
<p>the white house is blurred out on that if I remember correctly :)</p>
<p>Neat-o! ;) Thanks for the link</p>
<p>The White House isn't blurred out or anything on Google Earth. The only places blurred out that I've been able to tell so far are extremely rural areas.</p>
<p>The resolution quality of the San Francisco/Bay Area is MUCH better using the newly debuted MSN Virtual Earth:</p>
<p><a href="http://virtualearth.msn.com/%5B/url%5D">http://virtualearth.msn.com/</a></p>
<p>Here's an example, Google Earth on top and MSN on bottom (The photo is of Lakeshore Elementary School in San Francisco)</p>
<p>The White House isn't blurred out or anything on Google Earth.</p>
<p>The roof is shaded one color, presumably so people do not know where the anti-aircraft or any other defense systems are mounted.</p>
<p>Which program is better overall, MSN Virtual Earth or Google Earth? Also, which one came out first?</p>
<p>There a little different. I have to explain 3 programs:</p>
<p>First, Google Maps came out. It's a web-based program for maps and satellite imaging. Then, Google Earth came out, which is a standalone application where you have a 3D World that you can scroll through, and you could also zoom in farther than you could with Google Maps.</p>
<p>Now recently, MSN's Virtual Earth came out. It's a web based app like Google Maps, but allows you to zoom in at the Google Earth levels (if that makes sense :p)</p>
<p>In terms of resolution, it depends on the area. VirtualEarth in general is worse, many areas are in black and white, and are lower resolution than Google Maps/Earth. However, the San Francisco Bay Area is in absolutely stunning quality on VirtualEarth.</p>
<p>In terms of what came out first, Google did in this recent wave, but MSN had Terraserver for many years now, which was web based but pretty clunky to use.</p>
<p>I used it about a month ago. It's so cool. I zoomed all the way from earth to my house. The only criticism I have is that one can't really see that much outside of America and the world's mega-cities.</p>
<p>I don't know about the Bay area but Google Earth is so much easier to use than the Microsoft stuff. I tried typing in the name of a prominent college located in a city and Microsoft sent me to two wrong places. Google got me there immediately, plus the picture does not keep breaking up as you zoom as the Microsoft software does.</p>
<p>Google is such an amazingly creepy organization. Whenever I see something like that I keep thinking back to the "Google-Zon" movie that was posted a while back...</p>
<p>It seems like Google is slowly taking over... watch out Microsoft.</p>
<p>cool. Google is starting to have more funky stuff. =]</p>
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You obviously don't know squat about Google.</p>
<p>I love Google. I was doing chem homework with my friend. We didn't know what one of the terms meant, and I told my friend that we should Google it. She was like "um... ***?" Hahah that was fun.</p>
<p>If you look up the Microsoft headquarters on MSN it shows a completely empty field, but if you look it up on Google, you see the actual buildings, etc.</p>
<p>Coincidence???
I think not</p>
<p>Can you see the Groom Lake facility? I tried zooming in on the Nevada desert, but cannot find it.</p>
<p>lol I just watched that google-zon movie (I had to google it to find it, hehe) and yeah, that is sorta creepy. If someone has to take over the world though, I think google would do the best job.</p>
<p>I think google knows too much about us...</p>
<p>The movie Antitrust was supposedly about Microsoft...
I would much rather Google take over :)</p>
<p>Google is awesome. Does anyone know when the library is coming out?</p>