Google Street View blurs cow’s face in UK

The cow could be seen nibbling on grass near a river in Cambridge, UK, but its face is obscured.

Google said that the blurred cow face was due to an “overactive automated system”.

The Guardian’s David Shariatmadari sent social media into a frenzy when he tweeted the sight.

Google Street View began experimenting with blurring people’s faces back in 2008.

The picture, which quickly went viral and was retweeted over 14,000 times, was taken at Coe Fen, Cambridge in the United Kingdom last August.

Moo-ve over Justin Bieber, Hoof-it Joey Essex, Google Street View’s “overzealous” approach to the privacy of a Cambridgeshire cow means this photograph is taking the internet by storm.

A spokesperson for Google told BBC News the blurring tech got a bit overexcited.

One quipped “Google teat view”, while another joked: “Cows should dress more modestly so they don’t have to have their faces blurred in shame”.

The image has since been retweeted over 9,000 times and received over 12,000 likes.

Google Street View launched in 2007 to provide photographic views of streets and countryside all over the world.

One twitter user said the blur applied to the cow’s face was “Udderly ridiculous”, while another said the cow was now “anonymoos”.