However, you might notice that Google has blurred some houses on Street View. You aren't having network issues. Instead, whoever lives there likely asked Google to do this for privacy concerns. If you want to do the same, here's how to blur your house on Google Maps.

Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application.

A history of Pegman. Pegman, that featureless orange figure: we know him as the moveable marker on Google Maps, and as our gatekeeper to Street View.