Last year, we heard the amazing story of Saroo Brierley, the Indian “lost child” who used Google Earth to find his way home after 25 years. This stirring video produced by Google features Brierley telling the story in his own words. It’s pretty crushing.
In the video, Brierly recounts how 1987, after a day of begging for money on the street, he boarded a train for home, but he never got there because he fell asleep and missed his stop. Instead, he ended up on the other end of the country. He was labelled lost, adopted and shipped off to Australia. But thanks to the Google, he found his way home — as if you needed another reason to love Google Maps.