Say, you are working and falling asleep at your desk. And everybody can be a witness of that. It is possible when your boss has installed a control-, security-, safety- or other kind of webcam. Visit the site of Opentopia for hundreds of streaming webcams all over the world.
And Google finds nearly everything, you know. In a special chapter (scroll down) you find dozens of search commands to use with Google, and you find thousands of sometimes very surprising webcams, anywhere. Often the owner wants you to see the view, in case of beautiful nature or a world famous touristic attraction, but sometimes the people you see are not aware at all that they can be viewed by anyone in the world!
DON'T CLICK UNREQUESTED/UNEXPECTED FILES!
The streaming webcams at this page are working with Firefox and Safari and maybe other browsers. They are not working with Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. My apologies! Try Firefox or something else. (Or do I have to download/plugin/submit something? If you know, please tell me)
Many cams show traffic, areas in or around factories and offices or are used to control the security. Often people can be seen. It can be questioned or the cam owners are aware to be visible worldwide.
You can select the webcams placed in various nations. Click at the image and you see the live feed that supplies information from the place. It is possible to make a geographic selection of countries all over the world and United States states.
Often OpenTopia doesn't know what kind of a cam is showed and the visitors are asked to provide that kind of information. You also can rate the views. It is possible to select random, the most often viewed, the highest rated and the newest cams from the selected area.
If you click the picture, you'll see what information is available about the location. Click at it and a window will open and you can see a live video feed, comments and ratings and other information.
GOOGLE HIDDEN, SECURITY, SURVEILLANCE AND OTHER CAMS
The Dutch Search Weblog Voelspriet issued a item, 'Gluren met Google' (December 6, 2007), about the numerous number of webcams you can find using Google. You can find many online surveillance cameras around the world that can be viewed without access restrictions, only using your web browser. In the discussion about the subject several comparable websites were mentioned. See also a report about the subject, Hacking Internet Cameras, by Fox (USA). Below you find a number of search actions to drop into Google The list is completed with URLs, found in other websites:
WebcamVue.com is using a selection of clever Google searches and has created a free comprehensive directory of live public webcams around the world. Look and enjoy some unusual sights, people working in offices, holiday makers sunbathing on the beach, aquariums, building sites and some popular cities: Paris, Barcelona, Zurich, London. A special chapter contains Random Spycams.
Restrict the search to a country, specialized URL a.s.o.:
Sometimes your order gives hundreds of URLs. You can restrict your search by adding a country, a specialized URL or another message:
Add: site:nl and your search is restricted to nl (The Netherlands).
Like: intitle:"live view" intitle:axis site:nl
Other examples:
site:de (Restricted to de (Germany)
site:be (Restricted to be (Belgium)
site:com (Restricted to com (com)
site:net (Restricted to net (net)
and so on.
- John Bokma, a freelance Perl programmer, born in the Netherlands, but currently living with Esme in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, already in January 2005 issued the website Security webcam hunting with Google, with a great number of search orders.
- DrakePeak.net has a Live Webcam database of over 1650 live webcam images from around the world. You can select them by country, city, popularity, age & more.
- Camorati is a Search Engine 'for unprotected public webcams'. 'These webcams were found through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or semi-public places'. Visitors can add comments and ratings and view the cam information.
