Geek proposes on Google Streetview

GOOGLE GEEK Michael Weiss-Malik has had a go at proposing to his partner for a second time on Google Street View.

Weiss-Malik drew a sign with the phrase "Proposal 2.0 Marry me Leslie".

It took a bit of doing, and some insider information, to make sure that Weiss-Malik was in the right place and right time on Charleston Road when the Google Street View car was passing. Basically this is about as romantic as a news story involving a Google engineer can get.

We are intrigued, however, as to why Weiss-Malik wrote proposal 2.0 on the sign. We had assumed that he had a go before and failed and several point releases on the proposal later he still had no joy.

But according to his site Weiss-Malik said that proposal 1.0 had been accepted, but he felt that the initial proposal was far too low-key. He said that while proposal 1.0 had plenty of sentiment, it was lacking in pizazz. So he "did what any Silicon Valley geek would do and upgraded to "Proposal 2.0," a new, improved online version. "It went live on August 5, 2008." Did we mention he was a Google engineer?

Weiss-Malik said that he is not planning to tell Leslie about his cunning online move. He just wants people to email her here. µ