The modification generated great controversies when it occurred after the return to the presidency of the United States of Donald Trump. Recently, Google Maps modified the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America”.
Google, The American company that offers electronic, computer and internet -related services and products, caught the attention of several users to the eliminate of its application “Calendar” cultural events such as Pride month and the Black history monthand decided to show only the Official holidays of each countryallowing users to manually add other events.
The decision generated a lot of controversy, repudiation and controversies on social networkssince the change occurs and coincides with the return of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. However, the Technological giant He already clarified that the reasons do not have any relationship with the new president.
“We received comments on the absence of certain events and countries, and Maintain hundreds of festivities manually and coherently globally was not scalable or sustainable. Therefore, in mid -2024, we decided to show only the national holidays and celebrations of Timeanddate.com, “he explained Madison Cushman Veldresponsible for communication of the company.
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After a series of modifications, ads and explanations, the changes also generated certain doubts and dissatisfactions by the users. Along the same line, Cushman Veld He maintains that for some years, the team of Google Calendar began to manually add a broader variety of cultural celebrations worldwide.
Yes ok Google He did not explicitly provide a list of the events that were eliminated from his calendar, several users and experts pointed out that, in addition to the month of pride and the month of black history, other significant dates such as the Month of indigenous peopleshe Month of the Hispanic inheritance and the Holocaust memory day.
The recent Google change that also generated great controversies
In addition to the modifications in your calendar, Google implemented other changes in its platforms. Last February 11, Google Maps modified the name of Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America“, which is visible only for users who are within the US territory.
The change occurred in a complex and tense context, since it was carried out after the president of the United States, Donald Trumpmade official the decree that issued with the objective of “Restore American pride“The technological giant explained:” As we announced two weeks ago and according to our usual practices, we have begun to introduce changes that reflect this update. People who use Maps in the US will see “Gulf of America”, and people in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico”. All other people will see both names. “
Source: Ambito
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