Apparently if you live in a wealthy area, you may be more likely to have your neighborhood included on Google Maps. If you live in a poor area, Google Maps just might ignore the geography, according to a new report.
After noticing that the poor side of Lake Providence, La. wasn't on Google Street View, some say that Google "discriminates against the poor," according to CNN. Google denies any discrimination.
"We try to cover as many streets as possible but occasionally we miss the odd one or two -- for example there may have been road work that day, a street may have been inaccessible or simply because of human error our drivers may have missed a street," a Google spokeswoman said in an e-mail to CNN. "Hopefully we can come back and photograph it at a future date."
The argument is that the entire side of a town being inaccessible is unlikely, so it was a choice made by the drivers or Google. Google denies this, too, although a Google spokeswoman does say that the area was last mapped in 2008 and the region has been less documented than it would like it to be.
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