Google has been using its popular online services for years to remind users about cultural events, noting the application of the calendar with circumstances such as the month of black history and the month of women’s history.
Last week, some users noticed that the popular application no longer showed these traditions, as well as a liturgy of others, sparking an electronic reaction from some users who saw it as another sign that Google is turning more liberal views.
But Google said it has removed the Diary’s traditions in mid -last year for apolitical reasons. Keeping hundreds of moments manually every year for various countries “was not scaled or viable,” a Google spokesman said in a statement.
Delayed disruption has happened as Google and other large technology companies seem to react to conservative complaints that their products and policies are biased. Just last week, Google eliminated its goals, specifying how much diversity it wanted in its workforce, saying that as a federal contractor he had to comply with President Trump’s executive commands contrary to policies for diversity, equality.
The calendar dispute was followed by Google and Apple decisions to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name in the Gulf of America in their map applications, after Mr Trump ordered the name change.
Google executives also said on Wednesday that they would stop offering diversity training programs and updating other Dei content training efforts, the Guardian said.
For more than a decade, Google has worked with Timeanddate.com (a website showing the time, date and long holidays around the world) to highlight public holidays and national traditions such as day Presidents and the day of work. A few years ago, the Google Calendar spokesman said, began marking a wide set of cultural moments in countries around the world and the company was called upon to add more events and countries before deciding it was very rigid.
Google calendar users noticed that reports in the Spanish heritage month, Pride, Jewish American heritage and Holocaust Day had disappeared. Google Calendar again presents only traditions from timeanddate.com, including the day of memory, thanks and Christmas and users can add other times, the spokesman added. Verge mentioned the changes to the calendar for the first time.
Google’s calendar application is used by more than 500 million people for work and personal reasons and some of them ridiculed Google’s explanation that it was very difficult to keep up with every occasion.
Someone pointed out to X that Google “managed to keep some of the day of Columbus.” As a federal holiday, Columbus Day is still marked automatically in Google’s calendars.
Another user said that the shift felt like an attempt to “rewrite the story”, while others took the changes as a sign that Google was trying to attract Mr Trump.
Google said that in some countries, the celebrations in her diary included teachers’ day. While they are gone, the company said it is actively celebrating and promoting cultural moments as a company in its other products.
In the last two weeks, it has marked the Black History month with a moving image on the search page and a YouTube player. And observed the lunar new year with a doodle search and a edited movie collection on Google TV.
