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Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: May 31, 2007, 1:19 pm
by Dregor Thule
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 2, 2007, 6:09 pm
by MooZilla
im sure there's some answering to do as to why those videos are on youtube and not GOOGLE VIDEO!?!?!
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 2, 2007, 6:19 pm
by pyrella
Google owns youtube.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 3, 2007, 11:38 pm
by Pherr the Dorf
pyrella wrote:Google owns youtube.

Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 11, 2007, 5:16 pm
by MooZilla
Pherr the Dorf wrote:pyrella wrote:Google owns youtube.

Totally fucking original!
I think youtube definitely has the better video service. It could just be that i'm unfamiliar with Google, but youtube seems to be a breeze when it comes to finding popular videos and stuff related to what you just watched.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 11, 2007, 6:18 pm
by Sargeras
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 12, 2007, 5:33 pm
by MooZilla
old news

Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 27, 2008, 12:48 pm
by Chidoro
I just saw this and it's really fucking creepy. My home street is in vivid detail and I can walk down it house by house. Jesus.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 27, 2008, 3:14 pm
by Noysyrump
I found my car. Apparently the pictures where takes about a year ago.
This is very Orwellian. Also I found it a little unsettling, that most of the streets i looked at, had no bodies on them...
Edit: Woot now i can stalk ex girlfriends from my desktop!~
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 27, 2008, 3:24 pm
by Spang
My dwelling isn't built yet.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 27, 2008, 7:22 pm
by Dregor Thule
Noysyrump wrote:I found my car. Apparently the pictures where takes about a year ago.
This is very Orwellian. Also I found it a little unsettling, that most of the streets i looked at, had no bodies on them...
Edit: Woot now i can stalk ex girlfriends from my desktop!~
Which is funny, because I saw a link to a Google Maps picture with a chick flashing the camera.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 28, 2008, 3:31 am
by valryte
My neighborhood still doesn't have a streetview. I feel like putting some sort of sign on my window for that day when the little car comes strolling through my neighborhood. "Valryte wuz here!" ?....
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 28, 2008, 6:01 pm
by laneela
This is so freaking me out.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: June 28, 2008, 10:09 pm
by Morgrym
Can't look at my hometown due to sekrit underground government chit.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 2, 2008, 11:01 am
by Xouqoa
Chidoro wrote:I just saw this and it's really fucking creepy. My home street is in vivid detail and I can walk down it house by house. Jesus.
Why is it so creepy? You can go "outside" and do the same exact thing. I fail to see why everybody is making such a big deal over Street View.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 2, 2008, 11:08 am
by Arborealus
Xouqoa wrote:Chidoro wrote:I just saw this and it's really fucking creepy. My home street is in vivid detail and I can walk down it house by house. Jesus.
Why is it so creepy? You can go "outside" and do the same exact thing. I fail to see why everybody is making such a big deal over Street View.
Yeah but the new Google Shower View is a little creepy...
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 2, 2008, 5:46 pm
by noel
Xouqoa wrote:Chidoro wrote:I just saw this and it's really fucking creepy. My home street is in vivid detail and I can walk down it house by house. Jesus.
Why is it so creepy? You can go "outside" and do the same exact thing. I fail to see why everybody is making such a big deal over Street View.
So well said. Should the local news have to get everyone's permission before they film in a neighborhood? Should people posting to youtube... not?
This has been up and running for almost a year. They've been working pretty constantly to fill in the content.
What's the big deal?
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 2, 2008, 7:50 pm
by Dregor Thule
If it was in real time, THEN it would be creepy. Still scary on a "Google is going to consume our world" kind of way tho

Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 3, 2008, 8:11 pm
by Sargeras
I got a base-wide email a couple of months ago. Apparently the camera crews that take those pics tried getting on the base to snapshot the buildings and roads on the grounds. They were promptly told to gtfo by the MP's. The email said if we saw their vehicles (it listed a description with pics) that we were to report them immediately.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 3, 2008, 8:38 pm
by Winnow
Sargeras wrote:I got a base-wide email a couple of months ago. Apparently the camera crews that take those pics tried getting on the base to snapshot the buildings and roads on the grounds. They were promptly told to gtfo by the MP's. The email said if we saw their vehicles (it listed a description with pics) that we were to report them immediately.
What a bunch of idiots. They shouldn't have even attempted to shoot on a military base.
BTW, security is definitely tighter these days. We stayed at the Navy Lodge in Willow Grove, PA for a few nights and the process to get on base was more involved. They may have been in training mode though.
I just checked google maps and you can see the base easy enough:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.2 ... 6&t=h&z=18
Directly in the middle of that link is the Navy Lode where I stayed. You can pan over to the left and see the runway, etc. so at least the spies have satellite images to use! The helicopters look like spiders!
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 3, 2008, 10:20 pm
by Sargeras
From what I gathered from the email, the camera crew was pretty pissed. They claimed that denying them access was preventing them from doing their work hence unable to complete the project, and that they "had permission to enter" from some higher authority. MP's did the right thing imo.
Here's the
center of the base.
Here's
my office building in the SE corner of the base. Judging from the lack of cars in the parking lot to the south, this was taken after 5pm

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Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 4, 2008, 3:06 am
by Xouqoa
I can understand not letting them into military bases, but the people up in arms about them driving through their neighborhoods are ridiculous.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 4, 2008, 4:46 am
by Aslanna
I agree. Not seeing the big deal here. If it's public property, or anything that can be seen from public property (such as from omg streets!) then there's not a whole lot you can do to prevent people from taking pictures.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 4, 2008, 7:14 am
by Noysyrump
Who said up in arms?
It's just slightly creepy, knowing my x's are sittin at there desktop, stalking me where i live....
JK!~ no streetview in my neighborhood.... good thing i was at work that day.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 4, 2008, 12:20 pm
by Thess
I don't think this is a big deal, it might scare me if it was live video.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 4, 2008, 3:34 pm
by Sargeras
Thess wrote:I don't think this is a big deal, it might scare me if it was live video.
*clicks link*
OMG, is that Thess changing clothes in that window?!?!
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 4, 2008, 4:15 pm
by Aslanna
Now that's a bit creepy...
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 5, 2008, 5:20 pm
by Kwonryu DragonFist
For all of you who are paranoid about Googlemaps!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE&e (Part I of "The Googling")
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: July 5, 2008, 6:23 pm
by Aslanna
Part II is funnier. I always knew it!
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: January 27, 2009, 2:04 pm
by Sylvus
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: January 27, 2009, 2:22 pm
by Dregor Thule
Hahaha, oh god.
Re: Google continues to scare the shit out of me
Posted: January 27, 2009, 2:43 pm
by Funkmasterr
Ok that's seriously hilarious, what are the odds these guys were outside when google came driving by?
