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  2. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.

  3. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    A split-view screenshot of Google Maps. In the bottom half Street Maps is shown, while in the top half Street View is shown. A user can zoom in and out of either of them independently of the zoom level of each. As the user drags the map, the grid squares are downloaded from the server and inserted into the page.

  4. Google Street View - Wikipedia

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    Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.

  5. Google Street View in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California in November 2010. The United States was the first country to have Google Street View images and was the only country with images for over a year following introduction of the service on May 25, 2007. Early on, most locations had a limited number of views, usually ...

  6. History of Google - Wikipedia

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    When Alphabet was created as Google's parent company, it retained Google's stock price history and ticker symbol. Name. The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol", which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros.

  7. Google parent Alphabet delivers first-ever dividend, shares soar

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    Google parent Alphabet, flush with cash will pay its first-ever dividend joining rival Meta and other tech titans such as Apple and Microsoft. The search giant will also continue its robust stock ...

  8. Coverage of Google Street View - Wikipedia

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    Coverage of Google Street View. The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver ...

  9. Google Street View in North America - Wikipedia

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    Google Street View in North America. Taken in October 2010, a Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California. In North America, Google Street View is available in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Greenland, and limited coverage in some more areas.