For reference, on Maps, viewing historical Street View imagery is a simple three-step process. You click on the Street View/Yellow human figure icon and drop it wherever relevant.

In 2008, Google tacked on its famous street view option, and a year later, Google Earth earned its first historical imagery tool, which made it possible to review a region's changes over time.

Google kicked things up a notch for Google Earth's 20th anniversary. As of this writing, you can now time travel with Street View. As a refresher, Street View is the feature that allows you to ...

In some locations, the Mountain View giant claims that you will be able to go back in time to the 1930s. Lastly, Google Earth will soon support the creation of custom maps by researchers and ...

According to Google, its newest camera weighs 15 pounds and can be mounted onto any car, allowing the company to expand Street View even further. Currently, Street View has over 280 billion images.

The first Street View model, which launched in 2007, was cobbled together into a bulky black top hat-like fixture and strapped onto a van and driven around Mountain View, Calif. Engineers fixed ...