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Street Fight

Welcome visitors from Digg, it's very nice to have you here! To be kept up to date with the latest in things to see on Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Street View, you can subscribe to the Google Sightseeing…

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Saturday, 16th June 2007

Privacy Advocate Caught Red Handed. Again.

Update: This image has now been removed by Google. I wonder if Kevin requested that it be removed, or if Google decided to do it themselves? Staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Kevin Bankston has been caught by Google's…

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Thursday, 14th June 2007

X-Coaster

Update: As correctly pointed out by Matthijs in the comments, it turns out this is actually Gauntlet, which is beside X-Coaster. Unfortunately X-Coaster is brand new, and doesn't yet appear in the Google images. This is the X-Coaster at Magic…

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Wednesday, 13th June 2007

Viagra Spam

Despite Google's best efforts, someone has finally managed to spam Google Earth with a Viagra advert! Well I guess it had to happen sooner or later... 😉 Thanks to Mark.

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Tuesday, 12th June 2007

Paris Hilton’s Prison Cell

Paris Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, was recently sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating her probation when she was caught driving at 70mph in a 35mph zone, as her license had been suspended for a previous…

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Friday, 8th June 2007

World’s Largest Marriage Proposal

Here at GGSS we've previously featured rooftop and field-based marriage proposals which, for some unknown reason, are highly likely to feature misspellings or bad grammar. So we're very pleased to see that the latest finding, the words "Marry Me Tammy"…

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Wednesday, 6th June 2007

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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