With Google Maps Navigation, you can search in plain English. No need to know the address. You can type a business name (e.g. starbucks) or even a kind of a business (e.g. thai restaurant), just like you would on Google.
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Voicemail, the Google way
Google Voice with your existing number allows you to get many of the features of Google Voice, without changing your phone number. Learn more at http://www.google.com/voice
Google Earth Hero: BOS, Borneo rain forest
Willie Smits and Borneo Orangutan Survival used Google Earth as a platform for anyone to participate in the reforestation project by adopting acreage in the Samboja Lestari reforestation region.
Google Earth Hero: Save The Elephants
For over 20 years, Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, has used Google Earth
to track, study, and protect elephants from poaching with geofences and satellite collars on elephants.
Google Earth Hero: Chief Almir and the Surui tribe of Amazon
After observing the effects of illegal logging on the Surui indigenous people’s territory in Google Earth, Chief Almir Surui began using Google Earth to protect the rainforest and preserve his people’s way of living in harmony with the rain forest.
Google Earth Hero: Project Kaisei
The North Pacific Gyre, where garbage in the Pacific Ocean swirls in an eddy of indeterminable size, was the destination for the Kaisei Project . Tracking their path in Google Earth and Maps along the way, they experimented with turning plastic particles from the “Plastic Vortex” into diesel fuel.
Google Earth Hero: Appalachian Voices
Appalachian Voices, a grassroots environmental group in North Carolina, has educated millions of people, inluding policy-makers and legislators, about the destructive mining process called ‘mountaintop removal’ by flying people over the 470 mine sites in Appalachia in Google Earth.
Social Search demonstration
Maureen Heymans, Technical Lead, demonstrates the features of Google Social Search.
Introducing the Street View Trike
The Street View trike lets us take pictures of places that are not accessible by car. Learn more about the trike at http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/technology/cars-trikes.html