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Uploaded by on Mar 3, 2010

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18449

Webcam feeds are now helping Google Earth stay up to date.

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  • I make a picture of my penis and replace the eifeltower with my dick.

  • google is going to take over the world!

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  • @chaincells Ah, I did not know that. Thank you haha.

  • @gjljhjb1 is it 3D pig disgusting?

  • @asumazilla not "look" out the window - FLY out the window.

  • @mrHBski you're not far off. Wikipedia as a collaborative web 2.0 website is entirely user generated content, and also user "accuracy checked".

  • @newcoleco yes, you will see it realtime

  • @theirishhateyou If you are that concerned about your face being seen in public, why don't you wear a burqa?

    You don't - because you're not. Because deep down you understand what the destinction between public areas and private areas means.

  • ... The face blurring is automatic.  Dolls also get blurred. Also car-numbers.

  • @TheLyther

    It's more the direction things are heading in, seems like we're heading towards less privacy. You never used to be able to find out what houses all over the world look like. I realize most people probably are just using it to find a restaurant they need to drive to or whatever, but it just seems like this has more potential to be used maliciously than a simple map. Maybe it's just me, though (although, judging, by some of the comments here, I don't think it is)!

  • @chaincells

    My house isn't. :/ Plus, someone has to be doing the face blurring, it's not like NO ONE sees my face.

    But honestly it's not even that, it's just that we're heading in this direction - less and less privacy. Your house number was never on a map the public could buy, and they could never find a picture of your house in one, it just kinda seems like we're heading in a bad direction, not so much that Google earth ITSELF is all that terrible.

  • Royce Hall @ UCLA

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