After a long bout of controversy about privacy – which was not helped by cars collecting WiFi data – Google today has launched its first city in Germany with Google Maps Street View, Oberstaufen.

YouTube has struck a “landmark” deal with music rights organization GEMA (“Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte”) in Germany, following a ...

German publication Deutsche Welle is reporting that a Berlin court has vindicated Google Street View operation in Germany. In late 2010 Street View went live in Oberstaufen, a small town in Bavaria.

Researchers at Google and RWTH Aachen University, Germany developed PlaNet, which they say has ‘superhuman levels of accuracy' when guessing the location of a photograph.

Google Maps is becoming a little more human by using iconic landmarks when giving directions, instead of specific street names – and it’s taking many users by surprise.

Search Engine Land » Platforms » Google » Google Researchers Create Landmark Image Search Engine Share When most of us travel, we like to visit famous landmarks in the area we’re touring. It ...

Google is adding a few notable new features to Live View, the augmented reality mode of Google Maps that lets you hold your phone up and see visual overlays over the real world as its captured by ...