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Google Street View UK goes live - 20/03/2009

  • Google has announced its Street View service now covers 25 UK cities including London, Manchester, Cardiff and Oxford.
  • Street View is an add-on to Google Maps and Google Earth that offers photographs of streets and cities.
  • However, many of the photographs feature passers-by who have been caught unawares, which led Google to introduce technology that blurred faces in the photographs.
  • Google has also revealed that popular children's character Wally, from the Where's Wally books is hiding in just one location in the UK that is covered by Street View. The search engine is challenging users to try and locate Wally, who sports and red and white stripped jumper and hat.
  • We'll be having a go!

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