Google gives up “Street View” in Tamil Nadu after finding only Amma, Kalaignar posters everywhere

Search engine giant Google Inc has given up capturing street images in Tamil Nadu for its street view feature on Google Maps, after finding only posters of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and former CM M Karunanidhi all over the state. The decision was taken at a high level meeting chaired by Google India CEO Rajan Anandan. Google founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Senior Vice-president Sundar Pichai too, dialed into the meeting, sources said.

“After surveying the state of Tamil Nadu for months together and doing every bit to capture diverse views of each street from various angles and still ending up with only shots of Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi posters everywhere, with a heavy heart, we decided to give up Street View in Tamil Nadu,” Anandan told The UnReal Times. “It makes no sense arranging for a new street view vehicle and high definition panoramic cameras to run all over the state to find only 2 faces. Larry suggested that we might as well hyperlink Tamil Nadu to street view to a google image search for posters of Amma and Kalaignar. So that’s exactly what we’re going to do,” Anandan added.

The AIADMK, however, in a move that has positioned the party into taking the upper hand, has offered to help Google in what could be a first-of-its-kind deal. “It’s simple. They have to supply us with images of random streets. Within minutes, we will photoshop our Amma’s posters on them and send the images back to Google. And there you go! Your street view is ready. And we won’t restrict ourselves into just photoshopping posters. We will let our creative juices flow uninhibited and will morph people prostrating before them, bowing down to them, doing paal-abhishekam, aarathi and what not! In short, we have made Google an offer that they just can’t refuse,” an AIADMK leader toldThe UnReal Times.

Meanwhile, the DMK has conceded that they have been left behind in the race. “We are obviously better than the AIADMK on many levels, but when it comes to photoshopping, we do admit that we’re lagging behind. Without being proactive, we have unfortunately allowed them to evolve into one of Asia’s biggest photoshop factories. So naturally, people find Amma’s vivid, imaginative posters more fascinating than the same old smiling face of Kalaignar. We have a lot to catch up on, on that front,” a DMK leader admitted.