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		donalhunt on Dec 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Maps' Moat I'm not overly surprised that Google have added so many buildings in such a short time... This IS the same company that re-encoded the whole YouTube corpus (which while small at the time was still a considerable about of content) in a weekend to improve the user experience (SD -> HD launch).

PuffinBlue on Dec 20, 2017 [–]

I can't find anything about this re-encode - do you have a link to read about it?

l1n on Dec 20, 2017 | [–]

It's mentioned at the end of this blog post: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2009/11/1080p-hd-comes-to-you...

archon810 on Dec 20, 2017 | | [–]

Doesn't mention a time-frame though.

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