Is there any way to adjust focus?  When I zoom in on my home, everything is just a blur and the image is terrible.  I can't find anything that would allow me to adjust this.

maybe your screen resolution?

Might be your memory. I tried it on an older computer and it did the same thing. When I loaded on my new one with high speed everything cleared up...

Might be your memory. I tried it on an older computer and it did the same thing. When I loaded on my new one with high speed everything cleared up...

I hope not....this is a brand new machine, 2.2Ghz Intel Dual Core, 2GB RAM, NVidia GeForce 8500GT graphics, et al.

You can only zoom in so far in certain places.  You can see people walking around on the streets in NY,  but if you try to get that close in rural areas, all you get is a blur.

Have you tried using mapquest?  Plug in your address, and it will come to a map.  Then, at the top right of the map, it will have an option for aerial image.  Sometimes, I have found that it works better for the rural areas, than Google earth does.

Most likely because there is no close up satellite image that has been taken yet by google. I would try others that people have suggested like mapquest and microsofts live local maps. The general rule is they image the cities up close first then move out to the suburbs and more rural areas.

I agree with slomoe.  It just depends on where the "powers that be" have decided to publish hi-res satellite images.  I live in Tulsa, and the images are hi-res.  I can clearly see my truck in the driveway.  If I pan twenty miles to the west, the resolution is so poor it's almost useless.

Is there any way to adjust focus?  When I zoom in on my home, everything is just a blur and the image is terrible.  I can't find anything that would allow me to adjust this.

Sorry. I just zoomed on Paris Tennessee and the image quality is not high res.  If you look just east to KY lake the resolution quality improves.  If just depends on where you live.  Usually, rural areas don't get the high resolution imagery unless there's some sort of area of interest around you like a volcano or a field full of crop circles.