On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo lunar walk, Google launches the Moon in Google Earth, providing 3D images and information to would-be space tourists. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Google announced earlier today that version 2.0 of the popular Google Books Ngram Viewer is now available online. What’s an Ngram Viewer? In a nutshell, Ngram Viewer lets you find and visualize how ...

Orbit the moon and take narrated video tours of the Apollo lunar landings as part of Google Inc.'s latest mission into space. The Mountain View Internet company enhanced its 3-D mapping service Monday ...

One small step for Google Earth is one giant step for moon buffs. Google has updated its popular mapping software Google Earth 5.0 with a complete map of the moon that lets you explore craters, ...

This is not the first time Google has dumped a few cool features into Maps, nor is it the first time the words Google and space have been said in the same sentence. In a planetary upgrade, you can now ...

You may never get through all 500 billion words from more than 5 million books over five centuries. But you can find out, for instance, that "smartphone" is a lot older than you think. Lance Whitney ...

At age 14, I began reading my first Shakespeare play—Romeo and Juliet—for English class. It only took a line or two before my first profound, literary thought began to percolate: “This is English?!” ...

It's been nearly three years since Google rolled out its Ngram Viewer, allowing armchair historians to plot the trajectories of words and phrases over time based on an enormous corpus of data ...