Sunday, June 7, 2009

Google "Street View" Updates for Easier Navigation/Creepiness

Just when you thought that Google couldn't get anymore creepier, they decided to go off and update their creepiest feature contained within their website: Google Street View.

There has been quite a bit of ruckus over Street View in the past due to people claiming it has been an invasion of privacy and so forth with plenty of different types of people claiming its creepiness factor is too strong.

Well, to make things a little bit more easy to creep on areas of the real world that you're just too lazy to scout out for yourself, Google decided to give you the functionality to "double-click anywhere!"

What this means is that instead of having to be stuck to the actual streets that the Google Street View van drove on, you're actually able to double click obscure angles and actually zoom in. You can read all about the updates here.

Nonetheless, it's really only a matter of time until we have full blown virtual reality maps provided by Google, and to make things just a little easier to know updated construction schedules (to help plan navigation better), we might as well have real-time virtual reality Google Street View maps.

And the only way to go about real-time 3D virtual reality Google Street View maps is to have cameras on every single street corner, Truman Show style. And then we can all watch each other and Google can make billions of dollars off ad revenue placing Google Ads all over the place.

That's what you want, isn't it Google? To put us all in the Truman Show as a means of saving your precious Google Adsense that has been deflating as a source of revenue.

Well, screw you. That'll show you.

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