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it house reported on october 3 that google upgraded its google earth service.let users take a "time machine" and go back in time to view satellite and aerial images from 80 years ago.

citing the update announcement, it home stated that this "time backtracking" is only applicable to certain cities including london, berlin, warsaw and paris, and users can go back to the 1930s.

google earth allows you to "go back in time" and compare historical photos with current photos. in a blog post, google compared san francisco in 1938 and 2024 to see how much the region's geography has changed.

in the sample photos provided by google, you can see that in the 1938 photo, the port of san francisco was mainly used for shipping. in recent photos, the same location is filled with restaurants and cruise ships.