The president of Mexico on Thursday expressed hope that Google “reconsiders” its decision to change its online maps to reflect U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that he has the authority to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

Shortly after taking office, Trump issued an executive order announcing he was changing the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America.

For U.S. users of Google Maps, the gulf was listed as the Gulf of America as of Thursday. Google, whose CEO attended Trump’s inauguration along with other tech moguls, said last month it has “a long-standing practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”

But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Thursday that her government “will file a civil suit” against Google if it does not revert back to labeling the international body of water the Gulf of Mexico.

  • @Hellsfire29
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    -147 days ago

    Meh I’ll still use Google.

    • @SulaymanF
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      127 days ago

      I don’t. DuckDuckGo and an alternative email provider are wonderful.

      • Flying Squid
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        -17 days ago

        DuckDuckGo is just Bing. And Microsoft is not any better in terms of kissing Trump’s ass.

        • @SulaymanF
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          16 days ago

          Not quite.

          DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha , Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from  sites such as wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.

      • @Hellsfire29
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        -47 days ago

        I can understand why. To each their own.