GOOGLE today said its face-blurring technology was “overzealous” following the company's move in blurring a cow’s face on Google Street View.

The image was spotted by The Guardian's US Opinion Editor David Shariatmadari who shared the image on Twitter.

A Google representative immediately responded as the tweet went viral.

“We thought you were pulling the udder one when we herd the moos, but it’s clear that our automatic face-blurring technology has been a little overzealous.

"Of course, we don’t begrudge this cow milking its five minutes of fame,” a Google spokesperson told BBC.


The image showed the mammal at Rival Cam in Cambridge, England.

The screen grab image of the Google Street View shared by Shariatmadari has a date stamped August 2015.

At Press time, the tweet has been re-tweeted almost 15,000 times.

Netizens were amused by the image, with many making jokes about it.

“It needed to disguise its identity. It had a restraining order against the Burger King,” said a Twitter user known as MNeko.