# How do I contact a human being at Google? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882 "2015-06-18T19:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/21 "2015-06-20T17:49:07Z")
Not identical, but they’ll have a form to remove [revenge porn](http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20150619_ap_ff3b7f7b697b4af295935ed6a482ca1e.html) within a few weeks, maybe you could use that. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/22 "2015-06-20T19:19:15Z")
Google can’t find my address, but for the last few years I’ve tried to correct the name of a park in DC. On Google, it is named for a notorious segregationist. In real life, its name was changed quite a while ago. Each time I report a map error, Google sends an automated response that my change can’t be verified. Once I reported the error with a link to Street View that clearly shows the “new” name of the park. Again, my change can’t be verified. Fine, Google, if you want to keep the name of the guy who split DC into the white western part and the black eastern part in order to keep the races apart, there’s nothing more I can do about it. Maybe Google can come up with some clever art to celebrate this dude’s upcoming 170th birthday. May I suggest you throw some hipster-ed up stars and bars on your front page? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/23 "2015-06-21T00:38:06Z")
Apparently I’m a preacher in Alabama. **Northern Piper** , we should get together. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/24 "2015-06-21T02:01:18Z")
When I go to Google Maps, there is a question mark in the lower right hand corner. If I click on it, I get a popup menu which includes “Send general feedback” You could try that. ---
**Author:** ![Teach-me-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Teach-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach-me-not)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/25 "2015-06-21T04:31:25Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Google can’t find my address, but for the last few years I’ve tried to correct the name of a park in DC. On Google, it is named for a notorious segregationist. In real life, its name was changed quite a while ago. Each time I report a map error, Google sends an automated response that my change can’t be verified. Once I reported the error with a link to Street View that clearly shows the “new” name of the park. Again, my change can’t be verified. Out of curiosity, what’s the name of the park? ---
**Author:** ![NBYodo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@NBYodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NBYodo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2015, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/26 "2015-06-21T09:59:18Z")
Interesting. I’m at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, even though I’m signed into Google and have my home address saved in Google Maps. The Collective is not infallible, apparent. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2015, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/27 "2015-06-21T12:00:17Z")
> [@Teach-me-not](#): > > Out of curiosity, what’s the name of the park? On Google it is Francis Newlands Park. The National Park Service calls it Little Forest Park. There is also a fountain in DC that is named for him, and there are efforts to get that changed. Here’s a story about that and what an awful person he was. And yes, I think it is also terrible that DC of all places wasn’t yet corrected this memorial to him yet. > **[A Battle To Wash Away A Fountain's Controversial Namesake](https://www.npr.org/2015/01/02/374621746/a-battle-to-wash-away-a-fountains-controversial-namesake)** > > In Washington, D.C., a local commissioner is working to get Sen. Francis Newlands' name removed from a fountain. Newlands was an outspoken white supremacist who tried to repeal the 15th Amendment. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/28 "2015-06-21T12:13:01Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Given **Northern Piper** ’s experience, I should probably point out that I have an extremely unusual name; I am almost certainly the only Firstname Lastname in the US. My brother’s the same way; his email address is [firstname@aol.com](mailto:firstname@aol.com). Not because he got in with it first–there’s nobody else with his first name on the first three pages of a Google search. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/29 "2015-06-21T12:33:04Z")
I just google-mapped a whole slew of past and present friends, colleagues and bosses, including: CEOs of medium-large tech companies People with high media profiles People who daily use map-my-ride and similar location-based apps A Google employee …without finding anyone’s home address. It got one person’s work and one person’s ex-college. It seems really weird that Google should be making public the details of someone actively trying to be private. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882/30 "2015-06-27T19:03:03Z")
I’m late to the party, but I discovered that when I put my name into Google search & click “maps” per the OP, it puts a pin at my current GPS location. Which right now is a thousand miles from my house. So perhaps the OP’s wife is safe unless the bad guy is already parked out front. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-contact-a-human-being-at-google/722882.md?page=1)