For many years, Google has been using popular online services to remind users of cultural events. The calendar app marks opportunities such as Black History Month and Women's History Month.
Last week, some users noticed that popular apps no longer display these compliances, and saw another indication that Google is opposed to a more liberal perspective, rather than others' Rittany. Online backlash has been encouraged from the members of the club.
However, Google said it removed calendar adherence in the middle of last year for non-political reasons. A Google spokesperson said in a statement that manually maintaining hundreds of moments each year in various countries was “not scalable or sustainable.”
It's been a belated, but fuss-full as Google and other large tech companies appear to be responding to conservative complaints about their products and policies being biased. Last week, Google eliminated the goal of specifying how much diversity was wanted in the workforce, and as a federal contractor, it must comply with President Trump's executive orders against diversity, equity and inclusion policies. He said he must.
The calendar controversy followed Google and Apple's decision to change the Gulf of Mexico to the US Gulf in the map application after Trump ordered the name change.
Google executives said Wednesday they would stop offering diversity training programs and update other training efforts, including DEI content, the Guardian reported.
For more than a decade, Google has worked with Timeanddate.com (a website that shows times, dates and major holidays at locations around the world) to help it out on public holidays such as President's Day and Labor Day and nationwide. We have labeled observances. A few years ago, a spokeswoman was asked to add more events and countries before Google's calendar team began marking a wide range of cultural moments in countries around the world, and the company decided it was awkward. .
Google Calendar users have noticed that all references to Hispanic Heritage Month, Pride Month, Jewish American Heritage Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day have disappeared. Google Calendar reiterates only compliance from Timeanddate.com, including Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more, with users able to manually add other moments, the spokeswoman added. Verge first reported a calendar change.
Google's calendar app is used by over 500 million people for work or personal reasons, some of which have laughed at Google's explanations that it's too difficult to keep up with every opportunity.
X pointed out that Google “could somehow maintain Columbus Day.” As a federal holiday, Columbus Day is still automatically marked on Google's calendar.
Another said the shift felt like an “attempt to rewrite history,” but others said the change was made as a sign that Google was trying to appeal to Trump.
Google said in some countries, celebrations marked on the calendar include teachers' day. While they are gone, the company said it is actively celebrating and promoting cultural moments as a company of other products.
Over the past two weeks, I have marked Black History Month with animations and YouTube playlists on my search page. And it observed the Lunar New Year with a collection of searches on Google TV and curated films.
