You mention the Documentation for Google Earth but you have tagged the question Google Maps, Google Maps API v3. Google Earth is an application that runs on your local machine and has access to your local hard drive, the other two are web based.
Using the managed code API (winform) I had to start a local server in order to load local kml files. The webroot folder in the code below went in my 'debug' folder with the executable. I used the following code.
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