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Since Google is the dominant search engine on Planet Earth, it seems only fitting the technology giant is joining the hunt for the legendary Loch Ness Monster in the waters of Scotland.
Google has employed its Street View technology that has snapped countless images of roads and neighborhoods to probe the loch thought by some to be home to “Nessie,” a mysterious creature whose existence has never been substantiated.
One new image in particular caught the eye of Britain’s Telegraph newspaper.
“We were surprised by this sighting, too,” said a Google spokesperson, when a strange object was pointed out floating on the loch’s surface. “Is it a log, a bird or … the monster?!”
Google released the images of its search Tuesday, on the anniversary of the publication of the well-known “Surgeon’s Photograph” of the Loch Ness Monster in Britain’s Daily Mail on April 21, 1934.
That photo was proven to be a fake 41 years later in 1975 by the Sunday Telegraph.
Google used a 40-pound Street View “Trekker” camera around the perimeter of the loch for a week, and also attached it to a boat for a week to collect its images atop the water surface.
It joined Catlin Seaview Survey to capture images from under the surface.
Google says every month people search about 200,000 times for the Loch Ness Monster and 120,000 seek for information and accommodation near Loch Ness, even though “few people know what the loch even looks like,” according to the Telegraph.
On Tuesday, the Google Doodle – the image at the top of the search engine’s home page – is a tribute to the 81st anniversary of the publication of the infamous “Surgeon’s Photograph.”
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