Search Engine Maps Battle: US Capitol and Supreme Court, Washington, DC

Today is Election Day in the United States, so I thought it would be a fitting day to take a look at where we'll be sending our elected officials to: Washington, DC. Or more precisely, the US Capitol.

That's what it looks like from the front steps, but what about from above? FlashEarth.com provides a few different perspectives from Ask, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google:

Ask.com

Google

Yahoo

Microsoft: Notice the blurred out Capitol building along with the Senate office buildings to the North (Russell & Hart) and House office buildings to the South (Rayburn and Cannon). However, the US Supreme Court building is NOT blurred out (building North of E Capitol St NE between 1st & 2nd St NE).

Microsoft with Labels: we'll blur them out but label them?

Questions:

1. Why is Microsoft blurring out government buildings?

2. Why would Microsoft do this while Yahoo, Google, and Ask.com have not?

3. Why are different branches of government treated differently by Microsoft? Less respect for the Supreme Court?

4. Why blur out then label buildings?

5. Is this further justification for throwing the bums out today by casting your vote?

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