Google gets Paul McCartney’s house wrong
p2pnet news view Freedom | Advertising:- Giant advertising company Google has mis-identified Beatle Paul McCartney’s house.
For the second time.
It’s decided peoples’ houses make excellent free resources for its Street View scheme under which Gogglemobiles, equipped with panoramic cameras, tour the byways of the world, taking snaps of dwellings for online reproduction —-
—- without having first gained the permission of their owners.
“If hordes of people show up with cameras at the address Google lists as 7 Cavendish Avenue, St Johns Wood, London, and start chipping bits off the gate as souvenirs, the people who live there will probably be wondering what the hell is going on,” p2pnet posted in March
Why was that?
Gargle had mixed up Beatle Paul McCartney’s house with someone else’s, as p2pnet reported.
Now his, “London pad has been removed from Google Street View after he made a complaint,” says The Sun, going on:
“Macca was furious when he discovered fans could goggle at his multi-million-pound home online.”
Headline? Hey! You’ve got to hide my house away!
Nice one. 
Except Google’s images of Number 3, the house incorrectly labelled as McCartney’s London pied-à-terre, are still online, and still listed as 7 Cavendish Avenue, as our pic on the right shows.
But that still isn’t Number 7. It’s Number 3.
Gooleg says the address is approximate. But how can a street address be approximate?
Like, you don’t send letters to maybe 3, or maybe 7, Cavendish.
McCartney’s actual property further down the road has, though, been suitably blacked out.
And that’s where the real story is, ie:
if you’re an ordinary person, your house goes on public view whether you like it or not.
But if you’re a rich and famous celebrity …
Below is a pic of McCartney’s Cavendish Avenue pad at #7 as it was displayed on Street View before Gargle kindly obliged.
(Cheers, Jazz )
May, 2009
p2pnet – Google misnumbers Paul McCartney’s house, march 28, 2009
The Sun – Hey! You’ve got to hide my house away, May 22, 2009
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June 13th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Its it Very beatifull House Sir Paul MacCartney
I never bean before there Maybe one day I am go to visit the strret Cavendish 7 in Abeey Road
Sir Paul Best of the Best of musicica- Bas , acord,Piano, singer compositor
Best regards
From Kosova
June 13th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Hapy borth Day 18 06 1942 Sir Paul MacCartney -
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