"I'm not finding it significantly slower here" I'm on a relatively late model macbook pro using safari with a fresh silverlight install and it's dramatically s

"I'm not finding it significantly slower here" I'm on a relatively late model macbook pro using safari with a fresh silverlight install and it's dramatically slower than street view, enough that it's difficult to navigate around. "the Bing thing is handling perspective deformation much better, whereas Google Streetview introduces a lot of messy artifacts as the 3d parameters change." I don't see what you are referring to. What I do see is poorer quality from the top camera on google ( http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=san+francisco&sll=41.88295,-87.630901&sspn=0.017956,0.034676&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Francisco,+California&ll=37.792524,-122.399797&spn=0.008546,0.051026&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=37.793093,-122.399935&panoid=H7XLvZ0VvCQ4UWveoS4SDQ&cbp=12,27.09,,0,-30.22 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38... ), but I also see artifacts and whole blurred sections (like frosted glass) of images on bing, though it's apparently not possible to link to individual views. And other than what I mentioned, it really, actually is just a straight up street view clone. It's not a value judgement, it's just a fact. One huge company cloned something created by another huge company. I'm not sure why any of these statements would be controversial to anyone unless they had a stake in the success of one over the other.