What if you could search every visible word on New York City's streets?

The Pudding reports on a project by media artist Yufeng Zhao that has built a search engine based on the photospheres in New York City available through Google Maps. Plotting text on a map provides insight on types of shops on a street, the dominant ethnicity in an area and more. The Pudding has also looked at what the most popular text is, removing common street signs.

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