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Google officials have apologized and promised to fix a flaw in a map that exacerbated a territorial dispute and triggered a Central American invasion. "We determined that there was indeed an error," said a statement from Google after a Nicaraguan commander used the flawed map as justification for last week's incursion into Costa Rica. The erroneous map showed more territory belonging to Nicaragua than actually exists, according to US State Department maps of the area. When Costa Rica complained that Nicaraguan troops were encamped in their nation, Nicaragua's commander pointed to Google's map during a newspaper interview to prove he had done nothing wrong, and refused to move the soldiers.
Google Maps Mistake Triggers Invasion - Nicaragua uses border goof to justify incursion into Costa Rica
Now how weird is this? I wonder what happens if you google yourself and get no responses these days -- do you become invisible?
WTF is the Google motto? "It's our world -- you just live in it."?
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