Google Street View allows you to see a place as it was years back

Google introduced today a feature that lets you step back in time to earlier versions of its collected Street View data. You can now visit places in Street View as early as 2006, comparing them to what locations look like today.

When you visit a place in Google Street View, there will be a little clock in the top left corner. Clicking on the clock will allow you to choose a year ( dating back to 2006) and an updated image will show that same location as it was in whatever year you chose. You can scroll between photos taken in different years. You'll always get the best image Google has available, as algorithms are in place to weed out blurry photos or pictures taken in bad weather.

The AP reports that some Street View pictures posted through the years have "upset people who were captured in activities or visiting places that they wanted to keep private." Google now blurs the images of people who contact the company asking to be shielded from Street View, even if it's just because they don't like the way they look in the photo.