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Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government (arstechnica.com)
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Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

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[-] Jiral@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

qwant together with ecosia are working on establishing a fully independent search index but at this point it is really in its early days, with focus on France and Germany.

[-] nightlily@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

Guess they need time to fig-ure it out.

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