People are overreacting to Beta programs. So typical of the TSU
So when you go to Google maps and type in ‘Paris’, and it responds with ‘Paris, France’ you think that’s wrong as well? Seems an odd argument to me.
maps.google.com/maps?q=paris&t=k&hl=en[/quote]
It would be wrong if there were two “Frances” who claimed Paris as a capital. To assign that capital to one or the other. If theres no confusion, and there are no political issues with using the short form of a country’s name, who cares? But that is not the case here, so the distinction is an important one to make.
When you do a search on on Taipei
maps.google.com/maps?q=taipei&t=k&hl=en
The caption is “Taiwan, Taipei”
When you do a search on on Beijing
maps.google.com/maps?q=beijing&t=k&hl=en
The caption is “China, Beijing”
When you do a serch on Hong Kong
maps.google.com/maps?q=hong%20kong&t=k&hl=en
The caption is “China, Hong Kong”
Does that make TI supporters happy?
Talk about mountains and mole hills.
[quote=“ac_dropout”]What people should be fighting for is for google.com to list the entry as “Taiwan, Republic of China.” .[/quote] As both the former President of the ROC, and the Former KMT Chairman Lee Teng Hui has already said the ROC is dead. Get over it, it is gone forever. It is just some old, wrinkly, China Nationalist Party (KMT) opium pipe dream now. Now there is only two countries, Taiwan and China and Taiwan doesn’t need the UN to make it a sovereign nation!
You know Google doesn’t have a map that says Republic of Taiwan either.
The injustice of it all. :loco:
[quote=“ac_dropout”]
Talk about mountains and mole hills.[/quote]
“From a shadow, a child is born”…might be a better proverb here AC.
[quote]“From a shadow, a child is born”…
by K. Tan from Singapore
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Yes my precioussssss, ROT is my precioussssss.
Or the DPP administration can spend billions to buy up a majority Google Class A shares and force those Stanford graduates to issue an apology.
It could work its way up to Yahoo and MSFT in 80’s style hostile takeovers.
[quote]http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12871978.htm
A previous version of Google Maps displayed the text Taiwan, Province of China'' next to a map of the island. But on Monday, a search returned only a map of the island, simply labeled Taiwan.’’[/quote]
It was a long and arduous battle with the Communist collaborators at Google. But justice and democracy prevailed once again. A shining beacon cut through the darkness that is ever threatening and looming on the horizon. A lighthouse guiding weary travelers to safe harbor known as Taiwan stands proud as a key site on the internet.
“We won, we won. The war is over,” cried the villagers on Taiwan.
GOOG is up $1.43 at the opening at of NYSE. Silly villagers don’t understand the PR scam for 4th quarter performance.
:bravo: :bravo: :bravo: Well said! Although I’m personally for maintaining the status quo, it is up to the Taiwanese to make that decision, but said decision will require a lot of bloodshed and sacrifice on the part of the Taiwanese people. So far, groups like the TSU are a lot of talk, but they certainly aren’t walking the walk. Once and for all, someone needs to tell them to put up or shut up. But something tells me that the majority of the people (and especially the government) don’t have the stomach for it.
Taiwan 1, Google 0.
Nice play, TSU and MOFA!
According to what I read in the China Post today, Google no longer calls Taiwan a “Province of China.” Instead, a new map has been put in place that is ambiguous. If this is true, then I know someone at Google at least has one brain cell. Ambiguous is best for now.
Yes, now the textual content that used to appear to the right of the map is no longer there at all. It doesn’t say anything.
Google’s corporate motto is “Do no evil.” I guess they they thought maybe they had crossed that line. Yahoo certainly did a few weeks ago.
It’s probably too bad for Taiwan the issue got resolved so soon. It may have been better if it had become more of a controversy drawing more international attention to the naming of Taiwan conundrum.
Funny, the Taiwan News front page had a CNA story headlined “Taiwanese expats in US assault Google offices”
ASSAULT!
while the Taipei Times headlined the same story
“Taiwanese expats protest in front of Google offices”
Who writes these headlines for the Taiwan News? ASSAULT?
EMail Letter today from Google people:
Dear Sir or Maam in Taiwan,
Thank you for writing. As you may have noticed, the Google Local interface has been updated to improve the overall experience for our users. Searching for addresses, cities, postal codes, and countries will now result in a larger viewable map, which is made possible by eliminating the textual information on the left-hand side of the page for these types of searches. We have also updated the labeling of regions and countries on our maps so that the size of the label correlates directly to the size of the region.
These changes were motivated by our efforts to effectively apply user feedback to improve Google Local. We appreciate your continued feedback.
Regards,
The Google Team
What?!
Google didn’t make the change because they supported democracy and human rights?
Blast them.
[quote=“ac_dropout”]What?!
Google didn’t make the change because they supported democracy and human rights?
Blast them.[/quote]
Time Warp Back to a Month Ago
What?
Google didn’t include “Part of China” to because they supported fascism and murder?
Blast them!
Seriously AC, sometimes your statements are so absurd. Google will not change their statements and then declare “we support Democracy and Human Rights” hence destroying their availability in nations that censor, such as the one you support. Google’s best interests is in their shareholders, which include the Taiwanese market.
Google’s don’t make those statements because they are not political. As for you claim the Google trades in Taiwan, that is just plain incorrect. Google currently trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol GOOG.
I’m sure TI stockholders dumped the stock on the market when they heard GOOG had “Taiwan, Province of China” and bought them again when the correction was made…Not.
Sometime TI supporters are absurd when they claim Taiwan is not a Province of China, when it is still a province in ROC.
So instead of Picking a fight with PRC for instance or itself for having Taiwan listed as a province, it picks a fight with a non-political entity like Google. Selective memory lost is TI special trait.
[quote=“ac_dropout”]Sometime TI supporters are absurd when they claim Taiwan is not a Province of China, when it is still a province in ROC.
So instead of Picking a fight with PRC for instance or itself for having Taiwan listed as a province, it picks a fight with a non-political entity like Google. Selective memory lost is TI special trait.[/quote]
Being a province of the ROC is insignificant, as the ROC is not a Communist entity yet (that comes later if Chairman Ma is elected President) it is a democratic one. Besides that the ROC is dead and buried except to a few right wing crazies that came here in 1949.