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Whack! You could see 200 goats chomping away the "grassy goodness" in Mountain View headquarters. Is the search-engine czar considering a new venture in business of chèvre. Google has hired hundreds of goats from California Grazing for a week - does it make any sense? Why would they do so, given their lucrative world-wide business? Well, Googleplex has designed a bats in the belfry solution for the overgrown field - goats…lol. It's not as ludicrous as it sounds. A feasibility study suggests: cost of bringing goats is comparable to hiring lawn mowers for the same job. More than this, the green benefits of hiring goats are obvious - cutting out on the mower emission; restoring plan species; fertilize while grazing; and reduce noise pollution. Google is out on honest effort to reduce the carbon footprint, perhaps the men in Mountain View are conscious of Albert "Al" Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (Oscar winning documentary on Earth's climate crisis). ...

Layanan peta online Google Street View sudah sering menuai protes. Tayangan yang diumbar seringkali dianggap melanggar privasi warga, seperti yang terjadi di negara Finlandia. Dikutip detikINET dari TheRegister, Jumat (12/2/2010), otoritas di Finlandia menggeber penyelidikan dugaan pelanggaran privasi kelas berat di Google Street View. Pelanggaran dimaksud terkait penayangan gambar seorang pria tak bercelana di layanan Google ini. Sang pria ini sedang asyik bersantai di rumahnya yang berlokasi di daerah Raahe, Finlandia. Tidak dijelaskan mengapa ia duduk di sebuah kursi tanpa memakai celana. Namun yang pasti, pria tersebut tidak sadar bahwa ia tengah direkam oleh Google dan gambar setengah telanjangnya itu kemudian bisa diakses di seluruh dunia via layanan Street View.