title: Is Google transcribing the world?
link: http://jj.isgeek.net/2012/06/is-google-transcribing-the-world/
author: Jj
description: 
post_id: 878
date: 2012/06/04 15:49:33
created_gmt: 2012/06/04 20:49:33
comment_status: open
slug: is-google-transcribing-the-world

The other day I was writing a comment on blogger and instead of the expected recaptcha I found this: 

![Google using recaptcha for Street view](/uploads/2012/06/google-recaptcha1.png)

A photograph of text that I had to write down. To me, that looks like a picture from [Google Street view](http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/) instead of the regular [Google books snippets](http://books.google.com/). 

With this Google could allow us to enter any text and search out on the streets where it's located O_O! 

**Update**: [Apparently this is old news](http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/) :P