Internet giant, Google has updated its Google Earth programme loosing the traces of what was rumored to be the lost city of Atlantis.

The update has ridden the programme of a gridlike pattern that was believed to sunken streets from the mythological underwater city of Atlantis. Google Ocean, which is an extension of Google Earth, merely displays data artifact from the sonar method that was used to map the seafloor.

The company has updated the seafloor with new seafloor data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and some other organiasations.

Experts say that the first version of Google Ocean contained thousands of blunders relating to original archived ship data. UCSD undergraduate students have spent three years to find and correct these mistakes in the programme. The update will correct the mistakes and get rid of irregularities.

When the company uses too many of the surveys for information, it creates overlaps in the programme, which creates rumors around it on the Internet. Google Ocean explorers had spotted a large grid in 2009 and this sparked rumors that the programme ahs traced the lost city in ocean.

The updated Google Ocean is not without the overlapping grid and thus no traces of artifacts that were rumored to be Atlantis.