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Here at Google, We’re Always Looking For New Ways to Help People Stalk You
3:05 pm Monday Oct 27, 2008 by Caroline Stanley

Google Earth, or the Google application that allows people to stare at a satellite feed of your apartment building, has a new customized version for your iPhone that Salon is calling “stunning.”

The one part of their write up that seems strange to us: “…use the ‘My Location’ feature to jump right to where you are in the blink of an eye.”

Or you could just do it the old-fashioned way, and look up, right?

Here’s a video where one of Google’s geeks explains the whole thing; is it just us or does anyone else find Peter slightly creepy? We think it’s something in the eyes… [Salon]

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