I feel sorry for the Google Street View pin. A dangly little yellow dude, picked up by millions of mouse cursors worldwide and unceremoniously dropped into locations across the planet, only to ...

Since its launch in 2007, Google Street View has given us freeze-frames of life around the world–the mundane, the funny, the strange (video), and of course, the disastrous. As if playing a Web 2.0 ...

When Google unleashed its fleet of camera-mounted Street View cars in 2007, they accidentally captured life’s strange, funny, poetic, sometimes brutal moments. Canadian internet artist Jon Rafman then ...

An Australian laborer has explained the real story behind a viral Google Maps image that caught him in an apparent brawl outside his workshop. Kenny Riley went viral after owning up to the image, ...

For nearly two decades, Google has allowed users to get a first-person view of any given intersection — and even the insides of businesses — with its Street View feature. It’s a convenient way to get ...

Two friends spotted an opportunity to do something wild, and have now been immortalized on Google Street View, with thousands joining in on the fun. Liz Aldridge, 56, and her friend Tina Sheppard, 63, ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...