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To: tejek who wrote (254076)	10/7/2005 5:49:34 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573856

How any company could miss something as big as this, I have no clue: "Taiwan is demanding that the search engine change its recently launched Google Maps, which currently displays the name ``Taiwan, Province of China'' next to a map of the island. An apology wouldn't hurt either, Taiwan's vice president told reporters Thursday. The map name is quickly raising anger throughout Taiwan, a technology powerhouse with close ties to Silicon Valley." other online maps simply list the island as ``Taiwan'' without wading into issues of political domain. In building Google Maps, Google relied on data from ``internationally authoritative sources,'' Frost said (while authoritatively playing God) mercurynews.com