For those of you that no longer want to support Google, give DuckDuckGo a look. I've been using it for years and frankly you wouldn't know you weren't using Google.
Google crowdsources so much of their map traffic information, business updates and reviews, I feel there is an opportunity to demonstrate our displeasure.
So we all F with Google’s algorithm and search for Gulf of Mexico and Mount McKinley then only open links with those specific names X 100 (if time permits but might be my new hobby) to drive those search results to the top.
“While Google users in the United States will see the Gulf of America name, those in Mexico will continue to see “Gulf of Mexico,” which is how that country refers to the body of water.”
No surprise. It's the same Google that doesn't do business in China that still refuses to label any place in Tibet in Tibetan. Why is that? Sundar Pichai will gladly cave to any autocrat:
These 2 cases are extremely lawyery. I doubt the Gulf has ever been congressionally designated. Probably referenced in legislation, but only from it being the common usage.
McKinley was named via congressional act and switched to Denali by EO/Departmental guidance. It was easy to switch back.
Can't we just tweak HIS Google Map? I mean, if Google can send targeted ads based on what they perceive I'll buy next, how hard can this be? In fact, can't they set up his phone so he thinks he is President but really isn't?
...rename as the “Gulf of America” the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.
If Google is change the names of things based on the whims of every dictator's random post online, Google will become even *more* useless than it's already become.
I’m surprised the same Administration that just won a trade war with “Columbia” isn’t renaming it the “Golf of America.” Especially with the hardest working President ever hitting the links on day 5 of his regime. Couldn’t make it a full week without a day off.
^Excerpt: "In posts on X on Monday, Google said it will follow the government’s lead in changing the names on its Maps app.
Google specifically mentioned that it would change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' and Denali to 'Mount McKinley.'"
<--- really don't understand why
Not to defend Trump, but to play advocate that gulf does belong to the US, and I can see how the name can cause confusion specially since its a water mass between the two countries.
The rest of the world has decided to rename the United States of America. But it’s okay it will still be ‘USA’ for short. From now on it will be the United States of A**holes on all the maps and paperwork.
Premature capitulation is an ongoing problem for powerful men who use their power and money as compensation—because nothing says "I’m in control" like waving the white flag before the battle even starts.
From his office at the bottom of the Karcadia estuary, in Nova Francesca, a descendant of settlers recently arrived from a small village in the Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire decided to rewrite geography and history. https://www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/ash3002y/earlyac99/documents/verrazan.htm
A dear friend of mine (who is here) worked for Google for a while. He said, instead of starting with great expectations and later getting disillusioned, he already knew it was a 💩 show (and that was when most of us had a favorable opinion of Google).
This is Trump’s way of distracting us from his cabinet nominees, his insane executive orders and the fact that he had no plan to do anything to improve the lives of the average American.
Gratuitous idiocy on TFG’s part, but maybe worth emphasizing that the *continent* in question is North America. Mexico is as much a part of it as the U.S. and Canada. As petty and obnoxious as the change is, it’s not as loony as if he tried to rename it the Gulf of USA or some such.
As Jon Stewart said the other night, that's how this democratic system was designed to work. I'm not a fan of this change, but frankly, there are more important hills to die on. This particular change is just vanity and harms no one. It's the ones that do that need resisted.
I’m ready to die on the hill called “he is a facist, regardless of action. He is a narcissist, regardless of action, he is a criminal, regardless of action.” Saying who Trump is is not bad. It’s repeating the truth over and over. Cause Trump repeated lies and people believed him.
Sort of agree except we need to fight against ALL of it. letting it go optically shows agreement - and enables/empowers them to keep doing this little shit that adds up to big shit.
Freedom fries type nonsense revisited. Just as we’ve reverted to calling them French fries, when the cult leader goes, it’ll be the Gulf of Mexico again.
And btw, your eggs are still very expensive, if you can even find them on the shelves.
I just took Google maps off my Home Screen and replaced it w Apple Maps. Apple has better privacy anyway! FVCK GOOGLE! Their new motto ‘Evil is As Evil Does’!
Cool. I’m gonna run for president and rename Florida “Flordumb” and Texas “Texbanistan.” The water in between will be called the “Gulf of Fools” and when the next hurricane, cold spell knocks out electricity and oil spills reduce their beaches to sludge we can all say up by your bootstraps kids.
And now Hegseth has changed the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, but now it's named for Roland Bragg, a US Army paratrooper in WWII. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/hegseth-fort-liberty-bragg.html Next he'll be changing the name of Fort Moore back to Fort Benning in honor of American race car driver Norm Benning.
Greenland should rename Baffin Bay to BattyTrump Bray.
Cuba should rename the water surrounding it the "Great Castro Sea". The Mediterranean Sea becomes "ClosedToDonold See".
Hudson Bay. --> Canada Bay.
Is THAT who is hiding California's water spicket? Makes sense now, that the Canadian water faucet is somehow controlled by Silicon Valley. #sarcasm #felon47
What companies are making money on the text book change requirements for public education/libraries(?) Another way to drain money from our public institutions and into the autocracy inc hands?
For people here, please stop using and supporting Google as much as possible. We have so many alternatives, I know sometimes work requires it but avoid Google as much as you can.
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Mexico. The Trumpster is playing to the base
https://duckduckgo.com/windows
Yeah, they managed to get over that nonsensical thought, didn’t they?
It’ll be useful as a tool to weed out pieces of shit.
The order even mentions the statutory offramps but the new heads wouldn't stop it even if they were aware of the law.
Post Chevron challenge ahoy
McKinley was named via congressional act and switched to Denali by EO/Departmental guidance. It was easy to switch back.
I don't think it's the norm to change the name by fiat, even the recent removal of a slur took a lot of time to work through it.
Ordering the change w/o input is ill advised but the new normal.
*not all individual Americans
Use this instead 👇
#GISChat
Spread the word.
#fightBack
We have always been at war with Mexico.
By the way, who won that battle? 😉
use duck duck go…
Rest of the world: gulf of mexico
Because refusing the metric system wasn't enough
Iconographic imperialism. Because the US is not big enough already.
This is not good.
https://bsky.app/profile/adamparkhomenko.bsky.social/post/3lgqeqbgof225
Google specifically mentioned that it would change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' and Denali to 'Mount McKinley.'"
<--- really don't understand why
Trump is a racist colonizer.
https://www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/ash3002y/earlyac99/documents/verrazan.htm
Denali stood, so proud, so tall,
Yet Google bent to Trump’s loud call.
The Gulf, the peak, both lost their name,
To fuel a fragile ego’s flame.
Maps corrections as
soon as it appears
As Gulf of America.
And btw, your eggs are still very expensive, if you can even find them on the shelves.
If you put 'New Mexico' on a package it can end up in the Customs dept.
What the funk, Google, SRSLY
McKinley was named by an act of congress also and switched to Denali by the Dept of the Interior with questionable legality.
Unnaming Denali is on much more solid footing
Cuba should rename the water surrounding it the "Great Castro Sea". The Mediterranean Sea becomes "ClosedToDonold See".
Hudson Bay. --> Canada Bay.