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The Happy Couple
As the summer wedding season gets into full swing, even Google is muscling in on the action, and has managed to capture a rather charming shot of the newlyweds - probably much to the disappointment of the photographer who wanted…
The Desert of Maine (Desert Week)
We’re continuing the first annual GSS Desert Week! We’re mostly posting about deserts and it's lasting about a week! The 40 acre Desert of Maine is located in a pine forest near the town of Freeport. Although not a real…
Arches National Park
The Arches National Park in Utah, USA, is an area of unique geological formations, most famous for the huge abundance of naturally formed sandstone arches, of which over 2,000 have been formed due to the gradual erosion of the rock.…
The Invisible Street View Car
Prior to the recent Street View update you could pan down on the street view images to see the car which carried the 360° cameras around the cities. However, the most recent update somehow manages to make the car disappear, so…
World’s Largest Croc
Not reptilian, as you might expect, but rather a ridiculously overpriced, stupidly coloured plastic sandal. A very, very big one. There's not much more to be said about Crocs that hasn't been said already, and yet someone has managed to…
Top 10 Unseen Street View Sights
It's been a whole year since Google first launched their controversial Street View service, and we posted our first Street View sight. Since then we've seen the rate of discovery of the most bizarre and unusual finds increase as Google…
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