streetview

November 24 2010

Google now does baby portraits!

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This has just got to be the most amazing “Street View” capture in the GoogleCam’s history! *Click on the picture to see the full image. (More Street View fun here)

Don’t worry – we’ll take your baby portraits in the comfort of your own home or at our studio. Details

Update:

Google were quick to take it down. Perhaps they wanted to sell her some ten-by-eights before she had a chance to grab them off the screen!

(Click image for full size)

…or could there be some truth to the speculation that the whole thing was set up as a hoax?

Hmm… We’ll see!

October 1 2010

New Moons – as captured by Google

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“In Dublin’s fair city,
Where the bums ain’t so pretty,
There once was a Googlecam,
That can’t leave them alone”

Haha – the Google Street View camera has been out looking for porn again. In Dublin this time!

This image can be found on street view using this link – but I bet it will be gone by tomorrow!

At least that’s what happened after this one appeared in Bolton earlier this year.

Update (17.00hrs)

Haha – I was wrong! They didn’t take the image down – they strategically blurred it!

I wonder if it’s someone’s full time job?

Director of arse blurring!

March 17 2010

Google Street View Mooning

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…and the Street View Camera fun goes on!

Yesterday, if you typed 16 Bolton Road W into Google Maps this was the Street View image.

What tickled me was the way the face recognition software had blurred the lads faces. Should they also include …erm …botty recognition algorithms? 🙂

Today however, Google must have decided their servers couldn’t cope with the number of hits it was getting from the lad’s mates in Bury. Typing in the same address today results in this:

Spoilsports!

Click here for more Street View silliness

March 14 2010

Street View Fun

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Wow! I know buildings go up pretty fast these days – but the guys working on the new apartments by the roundabout at the bottom of Ruthin’s Market Street must have had steroids in their flasks of Bovril!

As you can see, when the Google Street-View Camera Van joined the roundabout from Park Road, the new building (top right) was only completed up to the first storey.
By the time it had gone halfway around as far as the Station Road exit, the builders had completed the other two storeys and were already putting the roof on!