Archived Google Earth?

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Chrissy Cruiser

Did anyone pull down a copy that could be downloaded, so many folks are
asking for this freeware.

Btw, anyone notice it phoning home?
 
Chrissy said:
Did anyone pull down a copy that could be downloaded, so many folks are
asking for this freeware.

Btw, anyone notice it phoning home?
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Its on Majorgeeks
 
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Did anyone pull down a copy that could be downloaded, so many folks are
asking for this freeware.

Btw, anyone notice it phoning home?
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http://rapidshare.de/files/2681843/GoogleEarth.exe.html

(About 10.5 MB)

I think (don't know for sure) the "phoning home" is a way to detect
the difference between free and pay versions. I didn't have to supply
any email, username or password for the install. About all it could
know about me is my WAN IP and other routine info that any website can
get when I surf. I doubt it's doing any significant "data mining" any
more than entering search terms on the regular Google site would
provide.

Ron May
 
Did anyone pull down a copy that could be downloaded, so many folks are
asking for this freeware.

Btw, anyone notice it phoning home?
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The "phoning home" is to download the image data. As you zoom in and
move around, it has to fetch those images from what I'm guessing is a
Google server. The program doesn't come with all of the images, as this
would make the download quite large (in the gigabyte range, I'm
guessing).
 
I can't get any copy I find to work. I get the error, We were unable to
connect to the Google Earth servers to activate you account. Please
verify that your internet connection is working properly and retry your
account activation For more information visit
http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=20717 Error code:
ffffffffc00a01f6

I've tried DMZing this computer, turning off my firewall completely,
uninstalling (without reboot inbetween because I hate shutting down)
and reinstallling. Any ideas?

P.S. If i don't do anything, I just see stars, no Earth.
 
The "phoning home" is to download the image data. As you zoom in and
move around, it has to fetch those images from what I'm guessing is a
Google server. The program doesn't come with all of the images, as this
would make the download quite large (in the gigabyte range, I'm
guessing).
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I got that part, I was wondering if there is any logging when not
requestion images. I haven't seen any, very unGooglelike LOL
 
I've tried DMZing this computer, turning off my firewall completely,
uninstalling (without reboot inbetween because I hate shutting down)
and reinstallling. Any ideas?

P.S. If i don't do anything, I just see stars, no Earth.
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Exactly the same here, and I've tried it on two different machines, XP SP/1
& SP/2, different firewalls, different AV. Same result every time.

Now uninstalled until such time as someone finds an answer, I can't.

Cheers,

Roy
 
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