Posted on 08/28/2010 5:45:54 AM PDT by La Lydia
Caleb Howe at Red State discovered it. Sometime today Google Maps made the Lincoln Memorial disappear. Here’s what you get if you type “Lincoln Memorial” into Google Maps:
SCREEN SHOT AT LINK
Obviously, the FDR Memorial is not the Lincoln Memorial, though it is nearby. A look at the edit screen shows that Google Maps users have been maliciously editing the page all day in what is clearly a coordinated effort:
Changed 8 hours 1 mins ago by Brian Erst Geometry: Location moved Approved 7 hours 25 mins ago by Google moderator Valerie Approved 6 hours 58 mins ago by Google Moderator DanielaC
The same group of morons has been editing the location of the real Memorial as well. But the real question is why doesn’t the Lincoln Memorial show up in the search results in addition to the edited FDR Memorial? This wouldn’t seem to be something users would be able to change.
I’m sure Google will get around to restoring honor to Google Maps, probably sometime late tomorrow afternoon. Maybe it’s time to switch to Bing.
There’s always Mapquest.
Just go to the general vicinity and look for the HUGE crowd!
In general I agree with you. It is not all that difficult to find the Lincoln Memorial. But my point in posting this, in case you missed it, is that Google is attempting to manipulate the situation and, surprise, is acting deliberately in bad faith, not that people might get lost.
It seems rather “1984”.
I just did a Google Maps search (0745 CDT) and it zeroed right in on the Lincoln Memorial.
Google are a bunch of commie loving punks anyways. I have been studiously avoiding them. I use www.ixquick.com
I didn’t even realize we had an FDR memorial. I learned something new from Google this week.
If there is an FDR memorial, I think we need to begin work on the Reagan Memorial. He was the most significant President in the second half of that century.
>> It seems rather “1984”.
It seems rather futile. A bunch of childish libs taking their pathetic “best shot”.
It’s the smell of defeat and depression (for them). Like the smell of urine in the staircase of a downtown parking garage.
I thought I was going to hate it, but actually the FDR memorial is really moving, not because of him, but because of what is portrayed there: the people standing in bread lines.
Shows how fanatical and relentless the leftist wackos are.
FDR was a commie
I repeated the search. It did not work the second time. Interestingly though, the results of the first search showed a photograph of the “Washington Memorial” obelisk.
“I just did a Google Maps search (0745 CDT) and it zeroed right in on the Lincoln Memorial.”
You would get it today. Most people are already there. No point in deceiving Americans now. They can say it was a mistake and they corrected it.
I am sure CPUSA headquarters is easily found.
Maybe they fixed it after they got outed at redstate. Did you go to the link and look at what came up for them on the screen shot?
Needs to happen soon, as space is running out with all the Memorials. The MLK Jr. Memorial, with it’s Maoesque statue, is being dropped in between the FDR and the Mall, across Indie Ave from the DC WWI Memorial.
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