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“The agency that created the map later made changes

without our knowledge or approval.

“We, as a company, do not take political positions unrelated

to our business, and we apologise for the post, which we

have removed.”

Google

Coca Cola are not alone in making ‘map’ blunders,

In the same week as the Coke episode Google had to explain
errors in their translations service between Ukrainian and

Russian.

“Anyone wanting a Ukrainian-to-Russian translation of
"Russian Federation" would get the result "Mordor"— the

region occupied by evil forces in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy

novels, including the "Lord of the Rings" series.

The surname of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov,

came out as "sad little horse," while Google also confirmed

to CNBC that the Ukrainian word for "Russians" was
appearing as "occupiers."

Though some reports questioned whether the company had

been hacked, Google chalked the issue up to a glitch in the
automated system, and emphasized that there are no

humans actually translating the text.” (Source: CNBC)