New Google Earth Search Capability
Search is at the heart of everything we do here at Google. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new search innovation that’s available today in Google Earth. Now you can now search through all of the world’s Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files, making the millions of Google Earth KML files on the Web instantly accessible for geobrowsing and exploration.
The new search capability can be found within Google Earth. It allows you to find relevant Google Earth content related to the place you are looking at in your Google Earth View. For example, if you search for “Lord of the Rings” in the “Search->Fly-To”, while looking at New Zealand, the search results panel on the left will show 2 sets of results: red bubble icons for results from Google’s local business search index, below that, web results in green globe placemarks, which include a small snippet (like web URLs with snippets on Google.com) and are checked off by default.
In the information bubble for a placemark from the web search results, you’ll find a link at the top to the KML/KMZ file that contains it. Click this link and you’ll instantly open the file, which shows up under Temporary Places in the Places panel. You can then browse the content by clicking on the files’s various placemarks, much as you’d browse links on a web page. So in the above example, you can open the search result for “Lord of the Rings Tour” and browse through
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