I can't download Google Earth

And I can't figure out how to tell Google that their web page doesn't work.

Visit Download Google Earth 4.2 (beta) for PC, Mac or Linux and click on that Agree and Download button.  For me, as of this writing nothing happens.   Both in IE 7 and Firefox latest version.

Now IE does tell me that there is an "Error on Page" after I click the button.

So how do I tell Google there's a problem?   After a mindless wild goose chase through the About Google >> Contact US I see the following:

You can find up-to-date info for all of our services – from Google Web Search and Gmail to Google AdWords and Google AdSense – by visiting the Google Help page. From there, you can navigate to a specific service's help pages and browse through hundreds of commonly asked questions, find answers in a help group, or send us your comments and suggestions.

So I go to Google Earth Help Centre and look about.  Nothing useful there so maybe the following will help.

Visit the Google Earth Community to share your expertise and experiences.

Oh, I have to register.   Yet another fricking register page.    No thanks.  I've registered at enough useless websites, waited for my emailed confirmation and all that cr*p.   And that page is slow.

Hint:  Why not use a gmail address? 

Google,  you're as bad as Microsoft.  No, you're worse.  Microsoft has comment buttons on the bottom of their web pages.   And I know people look at those.    Google doesn't have any.

I'll try again in a few days or week or two.

Published Tue, Jan 22 2008 0:37 by Tony
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# re: I can't download Google Earth

i have exactly the same problem my friend.Sorry for not helping you.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:57 PM by costas

# re: I can't download Google Earth

Dear Tony,

I could not possibly second you more. Dead ends like that make you want to help but there is no way of doing it. Crappy job.

Here are the links from the page source for you and the rest of us:

Win(PC): earth.google.com/.../directory

Mac: earth.google.com/.../directory

Linux: earth.google.com/.../directory

Jaakkima

Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:54 PM by Jaakkima Räikkönen

# re: I can't download Google Earth

Don't even bother, I've been trying for more than six months.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:49 PM by Vidmo

# re: I can't download Google Earth

I'm having the same problems... In fact google analytics which is a massive project of theirs on thousands of sites has the same exact problem, and has had that problem for months and months. There are some user created work-around that I implemented on my own sites, but no acknowledgment from google. How could this be overlooked for so long?

Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:14 PM by Joe D

# re: I can't download Google Earth

As of 4/10/2008 this still does not work for Fedora 8 in either Firefox or Konqueror.

Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:40 AM by garycarroll

# re: I can't download Google Earth

I had the same problem with my laptop, which had a clean XP Pro SP2 build and IE7 on it. I ended up downloading Google Earf on a Server 2003 machine, which has only the Microsoft Java VM (obtained from oldversion.com): no problem.

So, this afternoon, I rebuilt this laptop with a slipstreamed SP3 CD... installed IE7, the MS Java VM and the most recent Sun crapola... same problem!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:08 PM by Bob

# re: I can't download Google Earth

Hi folks, I'm running XP_SP1,  with Sun Java V6 Build 1.6.0_02-b06 and had absolutely no problem. In fact when I click on the link provided by Jaakkima, it immediately offers my the Save or Run dialogue box.  So, go figure...

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:52 AM by Sabreh

# re: I can't download Google Earth

I can down load but then en error message comes up and it tells me the solution is in my browser but there is nothing there !!!???

Sunday, November 23, 2008 1:47 AM by Graham

# re: I can't download Google Earth

I can't leave a comment it ALWAYS says 0(multiplycation sign)80040714! Please some one help!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:18 PM by Mercedes Benz

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:04 PM by jluc

# re: I can't download Google Earth

nope that dont work either

Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:03 PM by me

# re: I can't download Google Earth

i try to download google earth but onc i have it in my downloads box it says: error, google earth installer(or watever) has encountered a problem. Send a error report????NO YES DEBUG

Cr*****pp

Friday, July 31, 2009 3:15 PM by ed

# re: I can't download Google Earth

Hi,

I think the problem is with the automatic downloading. Try starting the download manually.

Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:17 AM by Deniz

# re: I can't download Google Earth

The link from the entry above by jluc finally worked for me.  I have vista on my HP laptop and tried many links to get google to download and show up with an icon on my desktop, and this one worked:

earth.google.com/.../thanks.html

Friday, October 30, 2009 4:07 PM by Doug

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