Google, the giant who needs no introduction has removed the post-Hurricane Katrina satellites imagery on its map portal with older images, i.e. the images before the devastating storm destroyed everything.

“Google’s use of old imagery appears to be doing the victims of Hurricane Katrina a great injustice,” wrote Brad Miller, who chairs a US House committee, to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.

If we go through the maps or to say have a virtual trip of Google’s images, we find New Orleans a great place, with parking lots fully packed, marines full of boats etc. But the reality is that, the whole area is now nothing.

Google, the ubiquitous internet search business, has been asked by a US congressional committee why it was “airbrushing history” by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region as it existed before the storm destroyed neighborhoods, uprooted trees and smashed bridges.Entire neighborhoods are now slab mosaics where houses once stood and shopping malls, churches and marinas are empty of life, or gone entirely.

Till now it is unclear, why this was done, but Google is surely doing “injustice” to the sufferers. Chikai Ohazama, who runs Google Earth, said governments often ask Google - whose corporate motto is “do no evil” - to change its imagery, but New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says it had no hand in the matter.