I'm old enough to remember when Google built its brand by providing access to information that was thought by most users to be reliable, based on the number of links pointing to each page (project "backrub").
With this, and seeing obvious poor paid advertising on Google Maps for services that I will never use, such as countless entries for "best Indian astrologer", I look forward to watching Google burn itself to the ground.
"Outrage as Google ‘capitulates’ to Trump with ‘genuinely disturbing’ move: ‘Just pathetic’"
by Alexander Willis
August 30, 2026 7:37AM ET
"President Donald Trump’s revenge-fueled order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America was validated by Google on Sunday after the technology company changed the name of the lake on its service Google Maps, sparking outrage among countless critics.
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