Google’s Amazon Adventure

Posted on Aug 21, 2011

Still from a BBC video

Google may be taking its “street view” service too far, unless this is an off-season April Fool’s joke. The company has sent—what else?—camera-equipped tricycles down to the Amazon rain forest to capture the street-level view of a place without streets. The BBC has the story.  —PZS

Watch it here.

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