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

why?

[nawcom]

Why did it take so damn long to get rid of the fucking hicks... good riddance..

Re:What's so funny about an illegal war?

[Oktober Sunset]

Same place as the outrage over Iraq.

Maybe it slipped down the back of the sofa while everyone was distracted by the drummers with glowsticks.

Re:Editorializing in summary?

[ultramk]

It isn't really inflammatory unless you're some kind of racist. Just saying.

Georgia = OIL ... WWIII here we come!

[GISGEOLOGYGEEK]

Bush apparently has learned about Georgia's oil. This must be the case since he's been all over the news demanding that Russia pull back from Georgia.

Expect in the next week or two for Russia to be renamed by Bush as the pinnacle of his axis of evil, and for the warm of to WWIII to get underway. We already know Russia has real weapons of mass destruction, Bush won't have to lie half as much this time around. ... and we were only a couple months away from Bush's reign of stupidity ending.