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youtube.com - 10/16/2009
Introducing the Street View Trike (video)
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Google's Street View trike lets us take pictures of places that are not accessible by car. Tell us where to send the trike next at http://www.google.com/trike

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A look at the Google Street View trike: A Google engineer, who...
Lost Remote — > > A look at the Google Street View trike: A Google engineer, who happens to be an avid mountain biker, created this trike to expand Google Street View’s photo-mapping to trails, zoos, campuses, landmarks and golf courses. While they’ve mapped a handful of these — check out this trail here — they’re holding a contest to see what to map next.

Nominate a Car-Free Space in New York for Google Trike
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide — Until recently, Google Street View has only featured places where the Googlemobile could drive. However, PC World reports that a new program dubbed Google Trike that was first deployed in Europe is headed to North America, and you can recommend car-free places that you'd like the trike to photograph for Google Street View. The deadline for suggestions is October 28, so get to it. (Is the High Line bike-accessible?). (Streetsblog) [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

10 Neat Facts About Google
Neatorama — Google in 1998 (notice the exclamation mark) Sure, everybody knows that Google was created by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin who became gazillionaires. But did you know that Google's first storage device was cobbled together with LEGO? Or that Google's first investor wrote a $100,000 check even before the company officially existed? Or that it has its own "official" Google dog? Neatorama presents the Top 10 Neat Facts About Google: 1. Before Google, There Was BackRub In 1996, graduate ...