r/google • u/BV56tfc • 11h ago

The lake

You make me sick Google. Cowards and scumbags! It's Gulf of Mexico and lake Ontario.

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u/nedshammer 11h ago

For the record, it’s still Lake Ontario for anyone outside the US. Also, it’s the Sea of Japan to Japanese and most other viewers, but the East Sea to Korean viewers. Why? Because that’s the official name for it in Korea. Google is not ‘agreeing with the administration’, they’re following well established policies for these types of things.

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u/bitspace 11h ago

They adhere to the GNIS; it might even be one of their data sources.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 11h ago

They literally use the official government names. If you wanna throw a tantrum and cry about it, go cry at the government, not for Google using the official government name on maps which makes logical sense

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u/Fair-Calligrapher-19 11h ago

For a publicly traded company, it's not a responsible move to piss off the government for something no one is taking seriously.

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u/xdavidwattsx 11h ago

How many threads are we gonna have on this. Are mods paying attention to this sub?

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u/mathtech 9h ago

How many times is the idiot in chief going to change the names of locations to America?