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WorldEye in Gemini and AI Overviews

Google's AI surfaces — the AI Overviews above search results and the Gemini app — answer from the same index that powers Google Search. There is no third-party app directory for Gemini and no connector programme a data provider can join; when an AI Overview names a source, it is because that page earned its index position. WorldEye's Google presence is therefore a search-engine story, and it's one we work on in the open: the site is three weeks past launch, fully indexable, and its sitemap is submitted and monitored.

What helps an answer engine is what helps a search engine, tightened: pages that state one thing clearly, numbers with their measure and date attached, and structured data that says what a page is. WorldEye's camera counts are the example we hold ourselves to — 74,229 cameras served is the headline figure, and the larger catalogue totals elsewhere on the site are labelled as the different measures they are, never blended.

How to use WorldEye through Google's AI

Ask Google (or Gemini) the way you'd ask a person: “live webcams in Tokyo”, “watch the northern lights live”, “earthquakes today”. Where an AI Overview appears, its cited sources are the route in — a worldeye.app link lands on the live globe, where browsing is free and unlimited camera opens need an upgrade.

Developers building on Gemini models can, of course, call WorldEye's REST API from their own function-calling setups — that's our developer platform being used from Google's models, documented on the developers page. It is a builder pattern, not a Gemini feature, and it needs a free WorldEye API key.

What Gemini & AI Overviews can do with WorldEye

What Google's AI can cite from WorldEye today:

• The camera catalogue's place pages — countries, cities and topics with exact counts and dates
• Event coverage written as dated, sourced news (eruptions, storms, floods, launches)
• Tracker pages whose claims are labelled live vs modelled — flights, satellites, ships, weather
• The methodology page: how the catalogue is built and what its numbers mean
• Guides and comparisons that answer a whole question on one page

What it can't do — on any engine

• No live video streams. The API returns a camera's current snapshot and a watch link that opens the live camera on WorldEye — the watching itself happens here, not inside the assistant.
• Only redistribution-cleared cameras. A camera whose operator hasn't cleared it for redistribution answers as if it didn't exist, and a withdrawn source's cameras leave the catalogue at once.
• No user data, ever. The tools know nothing about WorldEye accounts, viewers or viewing history — they answer from the public catalogue and the USGS feed only.
• Read-only. No tool creates, changes or deletes anything, on WorldEye or anywhere else.

A free API key covers 100 requests a day; WorldEye plans raise it (Lite 1,000 · Pro 5,000 · Ultra 25,000 · Enterprise 100,000 a day). Browsing worldeye.app itself is free — an account is only needed for a key, and unlimited camera opens on the site need an upgrade.

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