"You can change the map Google but you can't change the reality," read one response which was typical of the criticism.
But the company says that there has never been a 'Palestine' label on Google Maps.
Google employees discovered a bug that removed the labels for 'West Bank' and 'Gaza Strip', it has been claimed.
The company is said to be working quickly to get the labels back to the area.
This week's internet anger followed a petition from March this year signed by more than 250,000 people calling for Palestine to be shown as a separate country to Israel on Maps.
They claimed the company had “airbrushed” Palestine out and accused it of “aiding and abetting” Israel.
