Google Maps displayed the location of the Paris tragedy when people searched for 'Daesh'

Amanda Macias
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See a Map Timeline of the Paris Attacks
See a Map Timeline of the Paris Attacks


Up until Monday, when a user searched for 'daesh,' Google Maps displayed the Bataclan theater in Paris, the site where three gunman terrorized people at an Eagles of Death Metal concert, Bild reported.

"Daesh," is an abbreviation for stands for al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham, the Arabic name for the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL).

paris map bataclan
paris map bataclan

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Here's what users found when they typed in 'daesh':

isis paris
isis paris

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And here's what people saw when they typed in the French word for "bomb":

bomb map
bomb map

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