By Malcolm Owen | No Comments
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 10:14 am

Google continues to amaze me with what it creates. Recently, thanks to the mild annoyance of the Japanese of Street View, Google have decided to combat the anger there with a stop motion animation…

For those bereft of the ability to view that, it’s a video of a robot with a camera for it’s head driving around a toy town, taking photos of everything. It then goes home, scans the image for problems, such as licence plates, and is kept until the early morning working on other complaints that people have e-mailed or called in with.

Yes, it’s Google on a charm offensive to the Japanese. Does it work? To me, yes. Then again, I’m not from Japan.
It does make me wonder why there’s so little of that sort of thing done by Google in the rest of the world…

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