Now Playing On Google Earth: YouTube Videos

By Max Brenn
13:15, October 12th 2007
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Now Playing On Google Earth: YouTube Videos

Another day, another YouTube-related news! After Google unveiled its new advertising service Video Units, thanks to which the web publishers may display through AdSense relevant ad-supported YouTube videos, now it’s time for another melding.

Google combined its two services YouTube and Google Earth in a new layer. Thanks to the new layer when a user zooms in to view a certain location, they can choose to view related videos from YouTube.

Of course YouTube publishers have to tag their creations with a location marking for it to show up on Google Earth.

“Our new browseable layer of geotagged videos works a lot like our Google Book Search layer, only it shows you the locations referenced in specific videos instead of books. Let's say you're jetting off to Paris. Before you go, you can watch the sunset filmed from the top floor of the Eiffel Tower, among other clips of popular spots in the City of Lights,” explained in a blog post

Featured Content” folder in the left-side panel of Google Earth.



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