Why do people model for Google Earth? Watch this video to meet the modelers and learn why they create 3D buildings for Google Earth. Visit the Your World in 3D website to learn how you can make buildings: http://sketchup.google.com/yourworldin3d

Watch this video to learn how to chat with your friends inside of orkut, with no install or separate window required. Try it out at http://orkut.com

We’ve added some features to your iGoogle homepage that will enable you to post updates and play games with friends: http://www.google.com/igsocial

Learn more about how to rent the National Design Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Doodle 4 Google 2009 traveling exhibit.

http://google.com/favoriteplaces | A brief overview of the Google Maps Favorite Places project and launch event at San Francisco City Hall, 7/15/09. Favorite Places is a project on Google Maps to call attention to all the interesting places and businesses that are found online. Watch Google Vice President Marissa Mayer and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom describe the project.

Find out how you can use Street View on your mobile phone.

Watch the new version of this video at http://goo.gl/TYJi9 and learn how to use Orkut Promote, a free tool that lets you spread the news to everyone on Orkut.

(NO AUDIO) To add additional usability to our launch of user photos in Street View, zoom photo navigation allows you to navigate between similar user photos. This is particularly useful when one photo is a zoomed-in section of another, as this demo video of Big Ben shows.

Google was the 2009 recipient of the First Amendment Leadership Award, presented by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF). This video, which was shown at the awards dinner, highlights how our products enable people around the world to exercise the right to freedom of expression, even where governments routinely suppress free speech.