Google Wins The Game Of Risk As Street View Comes To Antarctica
September 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM EDT
In the game or Risk, the main objective is to take control over every land mass on the planet. With an update to Street View today, Google has just completed that. The original idea behind Google Street View was a good one: give everyone in the world a view from any street in the world. Of course, when it launched in May 2007, Street View was only available in five cities in the U.S. But the update today -- over three years later -- completes an impressive feat for the product: it's now available on every continent. Yes, all seven. Yes, that includes Antarctica. Yes, a place with no real streets.