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GoogleCNBC was informed that Monday’s map department re -classified the United States as a “sensitive country”, which retains the names of strict government and border disputes.
After the new category in the United States President Donald Trump Saying his government meeting Change the name On official maps and federal communication. These changes include renamed the Gulf of Mexico as “Bay” and renamed the Denali Mountain to Mcing Laoshan.
According to the internal letters watching CNBC, Google’s command will stop specifying the United States as a “non -sensitive” country on Monday. That’s the company Announce After the Trump administration updates its “official government information”, it will change the name of the water body to “Bay of the United States” between the Utan and the Florida Peninsula in the Google Maps.
The decision to upgrade the United States to its sensitive national list illustrates the challenges facing the early stage of the early stage of President Trump. Since the beginning of this year YuanTiktok, Amazon Others adjusted their products and policies to reflect Trump’s political views, policies and administrative orders.
Trump had a difficult relationship with Silicon Valley during his first presidency, and did not avoid criticism of the entire 2024 campaign. Recently, technical executives, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai Pursue a closer connection In Trump, the president stood behind during the inauguration.
Google’s sensitive national lists include China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. According to the internal letter of CNBC review, the label is also used in countries with “unique geometric or unique labels”.
The United States and Mexico are new supplements.
The company spokesman told CNBC that the “sensitive” classification is a technical configuration, indicating that some labels in a given country/region are different from other countries.
It is unclear whether Google’s re -classification of the United States has exceeded its “geographical” department.
In this photo illustration, the Gulf of Mexico will be displayed on January 28, 2025 in Google Maps applications in San Anselmo, California.
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Exceed 2 billion users per monthGoogle Map is the world’s top Navigation applications.
According to internal communication, some team members in the map department were ordered to change their position name urgently and classify the United States from “non -sensitive” as “sensitive”. These changes have received rare “P0” orders, which means that it has the highest priority and immediately notify employees and instruct them to delete their work in handling its work.
Google’s command pointed out that the Bay is similar to the Persian Gulf treatment. In the Arab country, the Bay is displayed on the Arabia Bay on Google Maps.
The company is in X postEssence “When the source of the official government is updated, we have a long -term approach, that is, the application name is changed.”
Google added that the name of the Gulf of Mexico will be displayed for users in Mexico. The company said users in other countries will see these two names.
In August 2015, when the Obama administration changed the name of Alaska from McGone to Denali, Google updated map To reflect the change of the name, the Google spokesman told CNBC.
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