Most people today use Google Maps to find local schools, malls, and the closest Starbucks, according to this year’s Google Zeitgeist, which catalogs the top searches of 2011. But there was more to ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In anticipation of the United Nations climate change conference scheduled to occur in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, Google Inc. is presenting a series of narrated tours through its ...

They say Google Maps is losing its focus with features that push it away from the straightforward and convenient navigation approach it offered a few years ago, but despite the criticism, the app's ...

Google sees everything. Well, almost everything. On Friday, the company revealed in a blog post that Google Earth now covers more than 98 percent of the world, and has captured 10 million miles of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. With the release of Google Maps’ new gaming API last month, it is ...

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google DeepMind announced today a ...

Google wants to turn business owners into cartographers with a new mapping tool designed to visualize their companies’ data. On Monday, Google launched Google Maps Engine Pro, a cloud-based software ...