Here we tell some of the biggest mistakes of Google in recent years.
1. “Festival of the clitoris”
That’s what happened to As Pontes de García Rodríguez, in Galicia, Spain, a proud 11,000 people celebrating agriculture annually honoring the grelo a green leaf innocent present in several dishes of the rich Galician cuisine.
The organizers of the traditional Fair Grelo, on Carnival Sunday each year, used the Google translator to convert from Galician to Spanish information the event.
And the automatic translator confused the Galician grelo with grelo in Portuguese: and so came about the party. “clitoris”
The invitation, which was withdrawn on Thursday, saying: “The ‘clitoris’ is one of the typical products of the Galician cuisine (…) The festival has made ‘clitoris’ one of the products of the local cuisine”
Yes. Now you try to translate “grelo” from Galician to Spanish, the result is displayed as “outbreak.”
An official of the City of As Pontes told the media that the local government was considered a “grave error “.
2. “Gorillas”
Last July, Google had to ask repeatedly apologized to one of the most sensitive issues in the US to label a black couple as “gorillas”.
The situation was generated by Google Photos, an application for sharing and storing images and video that was released shortly before.
The app automatically tags images that users upload.
The first to complain was one of two people in photo, Jacky Alcine, a software developer who lives in New York.
After hundreds of users did not hesitate to criticize Google for racist connotations label.
The company apologized immediately for what happened.
“We are shocked and really feel what happened,” he said a company spokesman told the BBC.
And said they were “taking immediate action to avoid such results.”
3. Adolf Hitler Square
For a few hours January 1, 2014, Google Maps and historical town made a mistake, that was extremely offensive to many.
renamed a important square in Berlin as “Adolf Hitler”, the name that took place between 1933 and 1947.
The scandal broke immediately and especially German- press was quick to report the error.
When questioned by the newspaper BZ , Google representatives were unable to explain what happened and said they were looking for the source of the problem.
The name of the square was He replaced within hours by the acutal name, Theodor-Heuss-Platz, and the Internet search engine made a formal apology for several hours.
“We were told that there was a name of false and inappropriate street Google Maps and corrected immediately, “Google spokeswoman said in a statement sent to the media.
4. Corpse in Google Maps
A man in Richmond, California, USA, said in 2013 that Google Maps had long online the image of his dead son, who was murdered in 2009 and they stopped next to a train track near his home.
The news that the body of Kevin Barrera, 14 years old, you could see perfectly when zooming on the satellite image of Google Maps , shocked the world.
The body of the young appeared surrounded by four and a police patrol.
José Barrera, the father, he asked Google to erase the image of his son died explaining the pain caused discover the picture.
“Our hearts go out to the family of the young,” said Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps in a statement.
Google never He said why he needed more than a week to remove the image of the young man, who at that time was an unsolved crime.
5. “The black house”
Until May this year, if you esribía in Google Maps “black house” in English, the search immediately took him to the White House, occupied since 2008 by the first black US president, Barack Obama.
As with the case of black partner mentioned in this note above, this and other searches have been considered racist under harsh criticism in USA, and led the software giant Google to elaborate apologies and explanations.
In the case of President Obama, Google acknowledged in a statement that occurred “some inappropriate in Google Maps results should not be appeared “and said his teams worked to” solve the problem quickly. “
But the” black house “and the” black king “is not the only search considered racist.
In fact, a student at Howard University in Washington DC reported by those same days that the write derogatory words to describe blacks, stood Google search in places frequented by blacks, as its own university.
6. Android urine on Apple
In April this year, several users of Google Maps in Pakistan met with a fairly controversial image: the logo of the Google operating system, Android, urinating on the logo Apple.
It is not secret that the two brands are rivals in a fierce competition for mobile devices, so Apple fans reacted.
In the image you went around the world on social networks, Google said that was generated by users, thanks to Map Maker, that allowed anyone to update the maps of Google Maps.
“We regret this inappropriate content created by users . We are working to remove it quickly, “said Mara Harris of Google in a statement.
” We learn from these issues and are constantly improving how to detect, prevent and manage bad edits “added the statement, clarifying that most contributions were valuable users.
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