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Did you hear the latest controversy about Google? If you are familiar with Google Earth, it is a way of seeing satellite photos of various cities all over the planet. However, the photos of one city have some hot under the collar.

Google is no longer using satellite images of how New Orleans currently looks. Instead, the company is now using photos from New Orleans, pre-Katrina. Some are accusing Google of trying to rewrite history.

This is not just arousing the anger of some in New Orleans. It is also garnering some attention from Congress:

Meanwhile, Google is expected to brief the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology’s subcommittee on investigations and oversight on the changes. Edith Holleman, the subcommittee’s staff counsel, said that briefing has not been scheduled yet.

The subcommittee chairman, Democratic Rep. Brad Miller, wrote Google CEO Eric Schmidt to say that “Google’s use of old imagery appears to be doing the victims of Hurricane Katrina a great injustice by airbrushing history.”

With all the people who are trying to put their lives together and don’t want America to forget what they are dealing with, this is a kind of slap in the face. The truth is not pretty but, it’s still the truth. Shame on Google for making this change.

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