Google News Has Russian Army Invading Savannah, GA

theodp writes "If you checked out Google-wannabe Cuil, you learned that mapping search results to relevant images isn't a trivial task. But even Big Dog Google isn't immune to embarrassing graphics gaffes. Readers of Google News were shown that Russian troops are thrusting into the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia, thanks to the Google Maps graphic accompanying a story about Russian incursions into Georgia — the nation-state in the Caucasus, not the Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern US. Yahoo! Answers also had some fun with the GA-Georgia mix-up — 'I live in georegia but i dont see rusia no where not even sound but they says theres tanks should i be worrie' (Google cache) — before a spoilsport deleted the question."

Comments

Re:Pay Attention (Offtopic)

[Johnny Chinpo]

It is time to give real power to the UN and the ICC in order to avoid more death and destruction.

I was with you until the above quote. Why should anybody give an ineffectual organisation more power? What has the UN done since its inception to curb the tide of illegal and immoral wars? Sweet fuck all as far as I can tell.

The UN needs to be done away with. I don't want some Korean fuckwit telling my country what to do.

Re:A local radio station was having fun

[at_slashdot]

Russia _definitely_ overstepped its peacekeeping mandate, sure. But by now nobody cares about it.

I care. Get the fuck out of Georgia. Georgian troops are in Georgia, Russian troops are in a foreign country. Do the math who is the aggressor.