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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: The Hollywood NeoCon on August 27, 2010, 07:20:28 PM
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On a tip from RedState: (http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2010/08/27/a-funny-thing-happens-on-the-way-to-the-lincoln-memorial/)
A funny thing happens on the way to the Lincoln Memorial...if you go by Google Maps, that is.
A reader emails that if you search Google today, on the eve of Glenn Beck’s rally, a search for Lincoln Memorial turns up, instead, the wrong address. And not just any wrong address either; it takes you to the FDR Memorial. Curious.
Just FYI.
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On a tip from RedState: (http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2010/08/27/a-funny-thing-happens-on-the-way-to-the-lincoln-memorial/)
Just FYI.
Check out the comments: Google (http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=16732120314954461649&q=lincoln+memorial&gl=us&hl=en&cd=1&cad=src:ppreviews&ei=yFl4TNe4OJz6yAW-xqm3Aw&sig2=VlOJ6qYkvslAnDWGWCmGqQ&dtab=2&pcsi=16732120314954461649,1&geocode=FV5SUQIdrWZo-w)
Google can't be bothered to celebrate Memorial Day and now this. Great bunch of people they got working there. :bird:
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Google is pathetic.
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Google is a piece of shit. http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=The+Lincoln+Memorial
Google is deliberately trying to mislead people from the Beck Rally?
If you aren't using an ad blocker, an ad for Obama shows up on the right side of the page.
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:hammer: I missed the first thread somehow. :hammer:
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:hammer: I missed the first thread somehow. :hammer:
It was buried in here. (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,47937.0.html)
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Hmmmm...seems they fixed it. Wonder why there would be such an issue? Questions...questions...
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Google Maps Misplaces the Lincoln Memorial Prior to Controversial Rally
Background: Controversial conservative media man Glenn Beck is hosting a "non-political" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28. Many popular figures from the Tea Party movement are expected to be there. Some oppose the rally because they see it mocking Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a Dream" speech which was given forty-seven years prior on the same day at the Lincoln Memorial.
Two nights before the rally the conservative and libertarian blogspheres started to report that the Lincoln Memorial had been misplaced in Google Maps. The shown location and any directions guide users towards the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial which is half a mile away from the Lincoln Memorial (Side note: Glenn Beck thinks Roosevelt was one of the worst presidents ever and routinely denounces him on Beck's radio show and television program). Many on the center-right blogosphere are claiming Google has purposefully made the change to confuse and/or spite rally attenders. ...
http://www.geographictravels.com/2010/08/google-maps-misplaces-lincoln-memorial.html
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Bijou, considering Google's political donations, I'd say that that is an absolute certainty.
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Still no comment from Google. PC World picked up the story a couple hours ago.
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Heh. I guess they had a liberal ninja attack. The funny thing is, my misdirecting people a half-mile away, they were actually doing them a favor. I'm sure the parking situation was horrible near the Lincoln memorial.
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When a friend I drove up to DC we were led into the ghetto of DC on Penn. Ave and we know what trash lives in the White House now
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I'm getting tired of the leftists and their childish tricks. It may not make a difference but I removed google as my browser home page & search engine. Bing ain't so bad.
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That is not a good move on Google's part. :censored:
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I'm getting tired of the leftists and their childish tricks. It may not make a difference but I removed google as my browser home page & search engine. Bing ain't so bad.
Try Ypppy - no tracking either:
http://www.yippy.com/