Google’s Street View Welcome Party

As the Street View car passed Google's California head offices, the Googleplex, hundreds and hundreds of Google Employees came out to form a huge welcoming committee for the passing camera car. There's loads of things to see, as many employees…

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Tuesday, 5th August 2008

Street View for Australia and Japan

Much to the annoyance of the tinfoil-hat privacy nuts, Street View's spread across the globe continues with two launches today: Japan and Australia! Japan has coverage in the following cities: Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba, Sendai, Sapporo, Hakodate, Kyoto and…

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Monday, 4th August 2008

Wobbly Bridge

No, not that one - this cutting-edge bridge is in Japan, and it really is seriously wobbly! It's virtually serrated by virtue of its cutting-edge wibbly-wobblyness. It's so wobbly in fact, that it's only accessible to specially-built, hand-customised "wobbly vehicles",…

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Monday, 4th August 2008

The Vitruvian Man

The Vitruvian Man (Wikipedia) was drawn around 1487 by Leonardo Da Vinci, and has since become not only the most famous of Da Vinci's works, but also one of the most famous images ever created. The drawing depicts a male…

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Friday, 1st August 2008

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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