For years, Google has used its favorite online services to remind users of cultural events and mark its calendar app on opportunities such as the Moon of Black History and the Moon of Women’s History.
Last week, some users noticed that popular applications no longer show these observations, as well as the litany of others, provoking online resistance from some users who have seen other signs that Google has turned against more liberal opinions.
However, Google said he had removed the calendar observation in the middle of last year for apolitical reasons. Maintaining hundreds of moments every year “for different countries” was not scalable or sustainable, “Google spokeswoman said in a statement.
The delayed stir seemed to have occurred because Google and other large technology companies responded to conservative complaints, that their products and politicians were biased. Last week, Google eliminated its goals, which specifies how much diversity it wants in its workforce, and said that as a federal supplier, President Trump’s executive regulation had to comply with the diversity, justice and integration.
The controversy of the calendar was governed by Google and Apple’s decisions to change the name of the Mexican Gulf to America in their map applications after Mr. Trump ordered the name change.
Google management also said on Wednesday that they will stop offering diversity training programs and updating other training devices that have the content of Dei, Guardian reported.
Google has worked for more than ten years Timeandate.com (A website that shows time, date and main holidays in places around the world) to mark public holidays and national preservation, such as Presidents and work Day. A few years ago, the spokesperson said the Google Calendar team began to mark a wide set of cultural moments in countries around the world and the company was asked to add more events and countries before it decided to be too unpleasant.
Google calendars have noticed that the links to the Moon of Hispanic Heritage, the Moon of Pride, the Moon of the Jewish American Heritage and the Memory of the Holocaust disappeared. The Google Calendar only shows only observations from Timeandate.com, including Memorial Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, and users can manually add other moments, the spokeswoman added. Verge He first announced the calendar changes.
Google Calendar app uses More than 500 million people For work and personal reasons and some of them, they ridiculed Google’s explanations that it was too difficult to keep up with every opportunity.
One pointed out X that Google “managed to keep Columbus Day somehow.” As a federal holiday, Columbus Day is still automatically marked in Google calendars.
Another user said the shift felt like an attempt to “rewrite history”, while others changed as a sign that Google was trying to appeal to Mr. Trump.
Google said in some countries celebrations marked on his calendar included teachers. While they disappeared, the company said it actively celebrates and promotes cultural moments as a society in its other products.
In the last two weeks, the month of black history has identified animations on the search page and a list of songs on YouTube. And he watched the Lunar New Year with a search rubbing and a curatorial collection of movies on Google TV.
