Google Brings Earth to the Browser

Microsoft did this with Virtual Earth (it never had a full-blown client) and now Google is importing Earth and all its content and capabilities into the browser.

Here’s my longer write-up from Search Engine Land.

Also at Search Engine Land I published a short interview with Google’s Director of Product Management for Local Carter Maslan about mapspam and how Google thinks about it.

Finally, Chris Silver Smith writes about some “cool sights in Google StreetView.”