If you thought the Google Maps controversy with Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America was finished, you're wrong.
If you bring up Google Maps and put Gulf of America in the search field, you come up with no results. If you put in Gulf of Mexico, it comes up, but the bottom says Gulf of America.
If you hit the little red marker it comes up with "posting is currently turned off."
After this, only if you start a search, and don't type anything in, and use the back option, then the labeling for Gulf of America shows up in the middle.
Apparently Google has been review bombed. The download in the Apple App Store has gotten tons of one star reviews describing the app as "factually inaccurate."
The Google Play Store for Google Maps defaults to "Most Relevant." When you switch to "Most Recent," almost all are one stars. My favorite reviews were:
"If I could give it zero stars, I would!!!"
"Location problem! Location problem!"
Lastly, "How does that orange knob taste in your mouth Google?"
There are also really long and angry reviews explaining Trump and Google's ignorance and stupidity.
President Sheinbaum of Mexico reiterated on Thursday her concerns about the name change, and suggested that she could sue Google about it.
The Mexican-American War apparently never ended. We have Donald Trump to thank for fanning the flames.
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Friday Update:
Encyclopedia Brittanica is refusing to change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.
"We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.'s authority to rename it is ambiguous."
"It's been called the Gulf of Mexico for 425 years. But it's important to note the distinction between international and domestic areas."
Mexican President Sheinbaum is threatening to sue Google over the name change.
"Who we have a dispute with is Google. If they keep insisting we will consider a lawsuit."
Apple and Bing have also updated their maps.
Earlier Sheinbaum had said, "The name of an international sea, it's not a country that changes it. It is an international organization that does this."
And, there's the change in the White House press rules that you can get kicked out if you don't call the Gulf, the Gulf of America, as AP found out
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is so clueless she said, "...it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, and I'm not sure why news outlets don't want to call it that."
News outlets have sued to get their White House credentials back before, the most notable example was Jim Acosta back in 2018.
