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Sharing a placemark, Saving search results, Add search results – Google Earth User Guide User Manual

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My Places folder by right-clicking (CTRL clicking on the Mac) on the
placemark in the viewer and selecting Save to My Places from the pop-up
menu.

You can also use the copy feature as follows:

1. Right-click (CTRL click on the Mac) on a POI and select Copy from

the pop-up menu.

2. Open the My Places folder to display the destination folder for the

POI.

3. Position your cursor over the desired folder or sub-folder.

4. Right-click (CTRL click on the Mac) and select Paste from the pop-up

menu. The POI appears in the location you selected.

See

Showing and Hiding Points of Interest

for more information on viewing

points of interest in the 3D viewer.

You can also move a saved POI to any folder in your Places panel. See

Organizing Places

for more information.

Sharing a Placemark

After you have created a placemark, you can easily share it with others on
the

Google Earth Community BBS

website. To do this, right click (CTRL

click on the Mac) on the placemark and choose Share/Post. The Google
Earth Community posting wizard appears in a browser window at the bottom
of your screen. Follow the instructions on this web page to post information
about this placemark on the Google Earth BBS.

Note - You can also share information that appears in Google Earth via

KML files

.

Saving Search Results

After you perform a search, a listing results panel also appears below the
Search button. Each search term you enter is the title for the folder
containing the top 10 results within it. You can collapse a particular search
folder by clicking on the minus icon next to the search term. While you are
logged in, you can revisit your search results just by double-clicking on an
item in the search list. You can clear search results from the listing by
clicking on the Clear button (X).

Once you log out of Google Earth, your search terms are cleared. However,
you can save search results for future Google Earth sessions in the
following ways:

Drag and drop a search result item from the search results panel to