Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
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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.
never mind looks like they got swallowed up by bing maps (that’s where Bing got line drive from, TIL!)
I still don't think Google is quite the same, but I agree that they share some fundamental problems and should be rejected as a whole.
So… Google, then?
It's not like it hasn't been repeatedly documented that malware is pushed through Google Ads and other properties.
Perhaps it would have died, too
But no
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.
I wonder if Bing is worth it for them to still operate because of the people paying to use the index.
And for things like official geographic names, government naming databases are often one of the authoritative upstream sources. So if the U.S. government changes the name in its official geographic database, it’s not surprising for that change to eventually propagate through map providers and into Bing.
It's ad companies all the way down.
Y’all good with a president who changes a 400 year old name on a hissy fit and spends his days shitposting at the level of "dumb teenage boy"?
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.
[0] - https://boingboing.net/2019/10/10/do-webrings-next.html
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.
Which matches popular usage in the respective countries. Your example is a non sequitir for explaining why matching popular usage can't possibly work.
For the popular usage of major geographical features to change is extremely rare, so I am skeptical that it's a huge amount of work to keep up with changes in popular usage. People made maps before they had automated pipelines for ingesting geographical names.
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?
Yes, in this specific instance it would give us an outcome we want. But in the long term we’re replacing democratic government with corporate control. Which doesn’t seem good.
(saw it on the internet, had to share)