Google did it!
It's been reported in our local rag the cardiff echo that goggle planted the charaters all over the uk. Including paddington bear, sherlock holmes and others for us all to find.
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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/03/26/google-s-ghostly-mary-poppins-mystery-solved-91466-23235039/
But today we can reveal that she is just one of a number of fictional characters that Google chiefs decided to cheekily place in the new map.
And while they chose Cardiff for Mary Poppins, Paddington Bear can be spotted on London’s fashionable Portobello Road, Sherlock Holmes has been caught in Oxford, and the Beefeater has been indulging in a spot of shopping at the Birmingham branch of Selfridges.
Google’s Laura Scott told the Echo: “The mystery has been revealed.
I logged on this morning after being off work ill to find both my main address and msn address flooded with failed responses and spam block messages.
Both these address i used on monster and as such found my dream job (thank you monster).
Coincidence?? probably. I just need to know how to stop them knowing i cant when im just being used as a reply address, grrr