Google street views to cover every UK road

KEY

Question 1
a) True. The company has been working on surveying the rest of the country using specially designed cars fitted with cameras. Hard to access areas have been captured using tricycles.

b) False. Spain, France, Italy and the USA are already covered.

c) True. Paul McCartney has asked for his house to be taken off the site

d) False. Sandie Dawe, the chief executive of the official website to promote UK tourism, VisitBritain.com, said that Streetview was one of the “first places people turn to when planning a visit to one of Britain's many world-class attractions.”

Question 2
a) Google ensures that people’s faces and vehicle number plates cannot be identified because they are covered and deletes houses from the site if owners ask them to do so.
b) 60% of users visit the site to check the appearance of a location, 30% check foreign places and 21 people out of a hundred look for houses with it.

Question 3
a) feature
b) fitted
c) find out
Question 4

a) If you do not want your house to be on Streetview, you can request that your property be removed from the service.
b) The number of people using the website’s technology has increased by 30 per cent.
c) Streetview had been consulted by six out of ten users to find out what a place they were going looked like.