[littlestymaar]

Maybe that's the reason. It sounds a bit extreme but given the control culture of the company that would make sense.

> All this created a huge about of negative PR

Probably not that huge though, given I've never heard of it before :).

[avianlyric]

It all happened a while ago. Google shut down the Map Maker program four years ago.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/google-temporarily-s...

[simonh]

I had, so given the sample we can confidently say 50% of people had heard of it.

Oh and I suppose OP, so 66%.