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Google Earth: Now You See It, Now You Don't

I'm hearing that some people who try to download Google's ultranifty Google Earth satellite mapping package are getting an error message explaining that the demand for the program is so high that Google is having trouble keeping up, and that it's temporarily unavailable.

I just tried, and didn't get the message, so it's apparently an intermittent issue. Click here to go to Google's download page and see if the download is up at the moment.

Comments

majorgeeks.com had mirrors up.
FYI

Brian

July 01, 2005

9:03 PM PT

I've been try since yesterday and I am still having no luck getting it.

Brian

July 02, 2005

6:53 AM PT

I managed to downlaod the program a few days ago, but performance was terrible. It "red lined" my AMD 64 without producing anything interesting. Increasing in-memory buffer to 100 megabytes seemed to make a small difference. Bandwidth use at 1% or less -- sign of web site overload.

Excessive demand may be one problem, but not the only one.

Wayne

July 02, 2005

9:12 AM PT

well, it works for me, no problem tring to download. I guess you guys can try again to see if the issue have been resolved.

ronald

July 03, 2005

2:12 AM PT

i download my from softpedia they have it there if you want to download it.

Anonymous

July 03, 2005

6:54 AM PT

I got it minutes after it was availible, but had connection problems. It works now and it seems to use most of my bandwidth.

Anonymous

July 03, 2005

10:46 AM PT

I d/l when it was first available and it's worked flawlessly for me ever since. Tough luck for you guys. It is a nifty program to play with.

Alan

July 03, 2005

12:12 PM PT

you can set a mirror yourself by uploading for us if you have Good Upload speed
Try uploading at rapidshare.de for us

M.Zaman

July 03, 2005

2:13 PM PT

yea, I just went to their download page and it was there and available, no problem now.........

Annonymouse

July 03, 2005

2:59 PM PT

I got it a few days ago and have had no problems at all. It has run smoothly everytime I've used it. I love it.

Chris

July 03, 2005

9:58 PM PT

I had subscribed to the original program Keyhole, before Google bought it.
Google's imaging is much better than Keyhole was so, I can't wait to see the improvments.

Gary Johnson

July 03, 2005

11:08 PM PT

Google did not remove the actual program from the servers, only the link to it! I downloaded it while it was "down" and it is working perfectly.

Kevin Song

July 04, 2005

8:39 AM PT

Do you have any mirrors for Google Earth? I'd be glad to try it.

Can't wait...

Grayson Peddie

July 04, 2005

4:17 PM PT