Iran skrytykował Google za to, że na swoim serwisie
Google Maps usunęli nazwę z zatoki oddzielającej Iran or Półwyspu Arabskiego.
Ze swojej strony dodam więcej: wpisanie "zatoka perska" w wyszukiwarkę na
maps.google.com - nie zwraca w tym momencie żadnych wyników, choć generalnie inne polskie nazwy geograficzne odnajdywane są bez problemu.
Co więcej, wpisanie po angielsku "Persian Gulf", skutkuje zaskakującym wyświetleniem głupiego pytania "Did you mean: Persian Gulf"
Fighting words: Google, Iran spar over Gulf’s name
Internet company decides to remove the waterway's label from its maps, angering Tehran.
There is a new Gulf war underway, but be careful what you call it.
Google unwittingly sparked the conflict last week when it dropped the name “Persian Gulf” from the body of water separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula. It declined to call it the “Arabian Gulf” or simply “the Gulf,” either, perhaps making its 250,000 square kilometers 97,000 square miles) the biggest landmark on Google Maps to go nameless.
Iran, the modern state of Persia, lost no time in launching an attack on Google. “Google[‘s] fabricating lies... will not have any outcome but for its users to lose trust in the data the company provides,” Bahman Dorri, Iran’s deputy minister of culture and Islamic guidance, told the Fars News Agency on Saturday.
Google’s nameless decision is the latest in a controversy over the Gulf’s name that goes back to the 1960s and has ensnared everyone from the Asian Games, to the US Navy to National Geographic magazine. On one side is Iran, which has adopted the Gulf’s Persian name as a symbol of national grandeur; on the other are the Arab Gulf countries, who fear Iran is staking a territorial claim.
“The name of the Gulf has become a highly emotive controversy in the region, to an extent that can be difficult to understand,” Jane Kinninmont, senior research fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Program at London’s Chatham House, told The Media Line.
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In hot water: Iran slams Google for keeping Persian Gulf off the map
Iran has criticized Google for leaving the body of water separating it from the Arabian Peninsula nameless on its online map service, saying it could hurt the Internet giant's credibility.
"Google fabricating lies will not have any outcome but for its users to lose trust in the data the company provides," Iran’s deputy minister of culture, Bahman Dorri, told the country’s IRNA news agency.
"The efforts of the (global) arrogance and its Arab allies to remove the name of the Persian Gulf will result in its name becoming more durable," he added.
While historical documents show that the waterway has always been referred to as the 'Persian Gulf', certain Arab states have recently mounted efforts to remove 'Persian' from the name of the waterway, instead choosing to call it the ‘Arabian Gulf’.
This goes against United Nations endorsements, which accept the ‘Persian Gulf’ as the only acceptable name for that body of water. The use of the name 'Arabian Gulf' was described to be 'faulty' by a UN Conference in 2002.
A Google representative has told the BBC the company did not name every place in the world – but was unable to provide an example of a similar case of a missing landmark.
http://rt.com/news/iran-gulf-google-criticism-690/
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