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The caption translation was excellent.

Hahahaha! How they can do that with a straight face is beyond me. I particularly like the third couple; they refuse, until he says, "Well, then we'll shut off your Google", and the next scene is them photographing the bedroom.

Just a heads up: Audio in German, subtitled in French. But you can get the main idea without knowing those languages.

You can also use the captions translation option (hover the red cc, and select Translate...).

A real Google feature helping you understand a fake Google feature. Nice.

When I do that, I can only see French as an option. Do you get other languages?

Click "translate captions (BETA)" and select English. It worked surprisingly well.

In the case that the house owners take the pictures themselves, I wounder how many people would actually be willing to do that.

1% of the population, 10%? I am thinking of hardcore twitterers combined with half of all facebook users and all of the foursquare/gowalla users...

New guess: 50% of all people

Perhaps I am mistaken but wasn't there once a google streetview for Berlin? I'm not 100% sure but I seem to remember looking at it before I moved there, but when I arrived I tried using it and noticed that it was disabled. I believe that this is due to some kind of lawsuit but I don't know for sure.

great! thats martin sonneborn at his finest. he's a german satirist and is notoriously know for pulling of stuff like this.

additional info: this is taken out of the german equivalent of "the daily show".

there's a german equivalent of the daily show? :)

sort of ... it's called "heute show" (and thats not a terrible translation but rather a pun because there's a famous german newsshot called "heute" on the same channel) and airs weekly on one of the public stations. it is heavily influenced by the daily show and far better than an earlier attempt by RTL that was called "freitag nacht news".

I bet facebook is working on integrating divyshot with "Dorm View"

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