Google Maps Pegman Is Now Santa For Christmas

By Barry Schwartz

Published: December 19, 2013 at 9:26 am

If you go to Google Maps and look at the Pegman used for browsing street view images, you will see the Pegman is wearing a Santa hat.

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The Santa Pegman is not new, it was shown to us when Google had a welcome back party for the Pegman in the new version of Google Maps.

Plus, Google has had the Pegman wearing a Santa hat since Christmas 2010.

Hat tip to Alex Chitu for spotting this.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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