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Google has deleted DNA Lounge from Street View [Tue, 18-Aug-2009 9:48 AM]
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Google has deleted DNA Lounge from Street View. This happened a few months ago, and was not corrected by yesterday's Street View update. Ever since Street View launched, you've been able to see DNA Lounge in it (evidence from more than two years ago!) but now, all of Eleventh Street between Bryant and Mission is missing from Street View. And hey, why bother to drive the entire length of Sixteenth Street? That's not a significant part of town either, right?

But the truly baffling part is: why would they bother to delete old imagery instead of just updating it as newer stuff comes in? That's completely retarded.

WTF, Google.

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[User Picture]From: [info]yan_1976
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 4:56 PM (UTC)

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only one logical explanation: google plans to enter the night club business
[User Picture]From: [info]misterfister666
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 5:07 PM (UTC)

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Do they have some sort of "safe search" mode to prevent children from
viewing places which may be injurious to the public welfare and morals?
[User Picture]From: [info]dougygyro
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 6:33 PM (UTC)

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Umm... the van drove down Dore.
[User Picture]From: [info]lafinjack
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 6:41 PM (UTC)

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If so, why is Washington, DC still on there?
[User Picture]From: [info]ranotops
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 7:18 PM (UTC)

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good one *face palms*
[User Picture]From: [info]nugget
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 5:13 PM (UTC)

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I'm assuming it's because you don't serve enough mexican food.
[User Picture]From: [info]sfmusiconline
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 5:19 PM (UTC)

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and yet the street view van drove down Juniper Alley...
Interesting...
[User Picture]From: [info]tecknicaltom
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 5:30 PM (UTC)

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it's probably because somebody made a privacy complaint about being seen somewhere on those streets. I've seen other places where they've gone overboard on removing street view imagery, deleting all the way down the street where the complaining person is visible from.
[User Picture]From: [info]strspn
Wed, 19-Aug-2009 1:34 AM (UTC)

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Is this the new undercut in the roughshod dog-eat-cat world of San Francisco night clubs? Claiming you're on a street view shot of the competition, leaving the drunk and soon-to-be-drunk club hoppers without any clue as to where to stagger next?
[User Picture]From: [info]ladyjalana
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 6:30 PM (UTC)

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And yet jwz was so adamant about remaining invisible to Skynet when selecting a phone... :-)
[User Picture]From: [info]capo_mojo
Wed, 19-Aug-2009 12:06 AM (UTC)

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Right, because what kind of idiot would want to simultaneously protect his private data but allow customers to find his place of business? I mean, he even put out a sign and everything...
[User Picture]From: [info]ladyjalana
Sun, 23-Aug-2009 5:02 AM (UTC)

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And yet it seems quite possible that "protecting private data" is what erased his club from Street View. Just saying it's ironic...

[User Picture]From: [info]ladykalessia
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 6:48 PM (UTC)

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Traveling salesman algorithm FAIL.
[User Picture]From: [info]inoah
Thu, 20-Aug-2009 11:43 PM (UTC)

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From: [info]drewsf
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 7:22 PM (UTC)

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Fortunately, there's MapJack, which offers street views of 11th St. and 16th St., and which has better imagery for much of San Francisco, anyway: http://mapjack.com/
[User Picture]From: [info]discogravy
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 8:06 PM (UTC)

SCENE AT MOUNTAIN VIEW,CA, GOOGLE HQ

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"Sir, Zawinksi removed the kiosks from DNA Lounge!"
"The ones I loved so much?"
"Yes."
"Well fuck him then, let's take his fucking club RIGHT OFF THE MAP!"
[User Picture]From: [info]spendocrat
Tue, 18-Aug-2009 9:56 PM (UTC)

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I was thinking similarly but about a recent post where he talked about not wanting to store his data online with Google.
From: [info]gryazi
Wed, 19-Aug-2009 5:49 AM (UTC)

Re: SCENE AT MOUNTAIN VIEW,CA, GOOGLE HQ

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Evil!
[User Picture]From: [info]lionsphil
Wed, 19-Aug-2009 10:46 AM (UTC)

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Don't be silly---Google aren't evil! They even say so in their corporate motto!
From: [info]gryazi
Fri, 21-Aug-2009 7:12 PM (UTC)

Re: SCENE AT MOUNTAIN VIEW,CA, GOOGLE HQ

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The cleverness of your icon conforms to the cleverness of your comment.
[User Picture]From: [info]earle
Mon, 7-Sep-2009 5:05 PM (UTC)

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That's easy, all he has to do is opt out.
[User Picture]From: [info]spendocrat
Mon, 7-Sep-2009 10:33 PM (UTC)

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Fuck
From: [info]cranaic
Thu, 20-Aug-2009 7:22 PM (UTC)

hmm...

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Generally speaking, mentally retarded people don't do things this malicious.
[User Picture]From: [info]shandrew
Fri, 21-Aug-2009 11:12 AM (UTC)

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Cover-up of deer + Google Maps car massacre on 11th
From: [info]stu_hacking
Tue, 8-Sep-2009 8:02 AM (UTC)

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As seen by the shady guy at the corner of Harrison and 11th.