Waterloo has met its waterloo
by James on Nov.07, 2009, under Random
On a recent trip, my wife called me needing to get directions for a side trip she was taking to see a friend. She had pulled off of I-69 in Indiana at a small town known as Waterloo. When I looked up the directions for her on Google Maps I could not figure out how she was so far off of her destination.
Way the hell south of Kokomo, IN
Trying to give me more detail she said that the sign for the next big city had been Ft. Wayne. I looked around the Ft. Wayne area and low and behold I found Waterloo. Now all I had to do was convince Google to give me directions from there. I figured that I would try looking up the zip code.
When you're not your own top search results, you know you have a problem
Apparently, my wife had pulled into such an obscure little town that other Waterloos were ranked higher on Google for a search of the town. Even being less lazy and typing in “zip code” only bumped them up a spot.
That's a little better, I guess
Using these results, I was able to get Google Maps to show the real location of Waterloo.
Because you were dying to know
You know that you’ve reached a special level of obscurity when not even Google can find you. Either that or it is some top secret government testing site that have been purposely obfuscated by some shadowy arm of our government. I guess you’ll know the truth if this suddenly disap
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