Wearing their wedding outfits, the pair stretched out in front of their sign - "We Met on Darwin Dating. PS: We're Hot" - that was painted on big red sheets of cloth. Jodie, a lawyer, and Michael, business analyst, say they set up the website to making fun of dating sites and admitted the poster's claim was technically stretching the truth.

They also brought along a friend who runs a hobby travel site and helped him stick 2500 pieces of white and coloured A4 paper into the ground using bamboo satay skewers to form the image of a giant eye. A ranger had asked them to move on, but when they explained they had been working on the installation since 5am, he did the only decent thing: turned a blind eye. The Foxes were among scores of people came out today looking for a place where they might be seen and snapped by a aerial photographer flying in a plane hired by Google.

Among others looking to get noticed was Aaron Schwebel, and IT worker from Wollongong who staked out a large sign at Queens Park in Waverley hoping that it might help save his marriage. [Full story here]. If the high resolution images turn out to be good enough quality, they will be added to the internet company's popular Google Maps application which is used by millions of people around the world to do everything from spot their homes to find an address.

The Sydney flyover is the first time the internet giant has attempted such an exercise on this scale. Usually photos are taken without people being aware that it's happening. Scattered cloud cover over the park this morning could affect the quality of the final images which Google intends to add to the Maps site in between four to six weeks. The Google plane was due to pass over the area at an altitude of 600m, taking images that could be up to four times more detailed than those that are currently on the map site.

Given the tech nature of the event, there were quite a few dotcoms out and about trying to make a spectacle of themselves. Down at Bondi Beach, Mick Slattery, 31, saw the Google flyover as a chance to make a quick buck. He scrawled the address of his website, "slatz.net", in the sand.

He said he had only just registered the site, and would seek to sell it for a profit if it appeared on Google's maps. "It's a brilliant start to get some free advertising," he said. Budding web entrepreneurs like Slattery littered Bondi's sands - nearby, two Japanese migrants, Ken Mikuny, 34, and Shu Ikegchi, 28, hit the beach to promote their YouTube-clone video sharing website, "AnatanoTV.com".

They too carved their web address into the sand, and hoped Bondi's international appeal would lead loads of virtual sightseers to stumble across the message.