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The new street-level view on Google's map service, which provides creepily detailed photographic close-ups of neighborhoods, has proved the technophobes right: privacy is a thing of the past, as Steve Jobs, whose silver Mercedes was caught outside his house in this Google Maps snapshot, can attest. So we don't feel too guilty about using Google Maps to spy on one of the site's perpetrators. Palo Alto is one of the cities for which Google has walkthrough maps. Sure enough, the 1930s home of Larry Page, one of Google's billionaire founders, was captured. It's poetic justice: the snooper, snooped. Here's the gatehouse of the quirky complex, a California Arts-and-Crafts masterpiece, and with Gaudiesque touches added by the Spanish architect. By the way, as charming as Page's property is, I hear the wiring was in terrible condition and, because of the building's landmark status, couldn't be easily ripped out. [Click on the image for a close-up.]
A snooper snooped
The new street-level view on Google's map service, which provides creepily detailed photographic close-ups of neighborhoods, has proved the technophobes right: privacy is a thing of the past, as Steve Jobs, whose silver Mercedes was caught outside his house in this Google Maps snapshot, can attest. So we don't feel too guilty about using Google Maps to spy on one of the site's perpetrators. Palo Alto is one of the cities for which Google has walkthrough maps. Sure enough, the 1930s home of Larry Page, one of Google's billionaire founders, was captured. It's poetic justice: the snooper, snooped. Here's the gatehouse of the quirky complex, a California Arts-and-Crafts masterpiece, and with Gaudiesque touches added by the Spanish architect. By the way, as charming as Page's property is, I hear the wiring was in terrible condition and, because of the building's landmark status, couldn't be easily ripped out. [Click on the image for a close-up.]
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8:03 AM on Fri Jun 8 2007
By Nick Denton
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