People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
I thought that was still the best way to get anonymous google index search results?
The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me.
It made sense to somebody else[0], too.
It's ad companies all the way down.
Review wise, it sits firmly at a single star, so it's possible that Google burried it, although I would not put it past them to rig things.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/hono...
> The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1171557898746...
I wonder if Bing is worth it for them to still operate because of the people paying to use the index.
The responsibility here is with a spineless government. An executive order is not a law and a congress that did its job would quickly contract these kind of mad king declarations.
For example: the body of water between the UK and France. The UK calls it “the English Channel”. The French call it “la Manche”. It has no official international name. In Google Maps both names are used depending on what country/language you are using. Choosing one via popular usage would not be a good solution.
Huh? Isn't that exactly what you've described? In the UK they show the popular usage in the UK, and the same in France.
Or require an act of Congress. Obviously, we can no longer rely on Executive Orders being careful, thought-out, or lasting changes. Does any mapping organization want to change names back and forth? Does any user want to see these changes?
Looking at a FuriLabs FLX1S to start the next phase by switching to a Linux phone.
I've become a sunk cost to Google by not spending anything on their products or services and always use Ad-Block solution in a private session if I must.
never mind looks like they got swallowed up by bing maps (that’s where Bing got line drive from, TIL!)
This is intentional manipulation
It's part of the "flood the field with bullshit" scheme of Steve Bannon
Second, I don't think anyone is losing sleep at night over this, except for maybe Trump.
But third, yes, some of us do like, in our own small and quiet ways, not to cooperate with pettiness, arbitrary authority, and executive overreach.
alephnerd•1h ago
[0] - https://boingboing.net/2019/10/10/do-webrings-next.html
reaperducer•1h ago