Virtual Earth vs. Google Maps?
Virtual Earth vs. Google Maps?
Shawn Wildermuth
August 22, 2005
Technology

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As far as I am concerned, it is not much of a contest.  They are pretty similar in the US, but to call it Virtual Earth seems a little ambitious.   For example, here is Paris in Virtual Earth:

Alternatively, the Google Map of Paris (can you detect the landmark ;):

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