Google has updated its online and mobile calendars, and references to significant events like Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and LGBTQ+ celebrations are noticeably absent for the year 2025.

Previously, the renowned search engine acknowledged the beginning of Black History Month in February and Pride Month in June, but these observances will not be featured in the upcoming year.

The news regarding the omission of these important holidays was initially reported by The Verge last week.

In a statement to the Guardian, Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld explained that the removal of these holidays was based on sustainability concerns for their approach.

“A few years ago, the Calendar team began to manually include a wider array of cultural events from various countries worldwide. We received input indicating some events and regions were still overlooked, and the maintenance of hundreds of cultural moments on a global scale proved to be neither scalable nor sustainable,” Veld noted in the statement.

“Therefore, in mid-2024, we decided to revert to displaying only public holidays and national observances sourced from timeanddate.com worldwide, while allowing users the flexibility to add other noteworthy events manually.”

This recent decision to exclude acknowledgments for Black, LGBTQ+, and women’s holidays is part of a series of changes Google has implemented since the commencement of Donald Trump’s second term in office.

Recently, Google also announced a rollback of its previous commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in its hiring processes, following orders from the US president to limit DEI efforts within federal agencies, marking one of his first initiatives as president.

Additionally, at the end of January, Google disclosed that users in the United States would see the Gulf of Mexico renamed to the “Gulf of America” and announced that it would revert to the historic name “Mount McKinley” for the mountain known as Denali in Alaska, following executive orders signed by Trump on his first day in office.

Social media platforms have seen a wave of disappointment and frustration among users regarding Google’s latest changes. As a result, individuals wishing to commemorate events like Pride Month, Black History Month, and Indigenous Peoples’ Month must now input them manually into their calendars.

It remains uncertain whether these adjustments will impact Google Doodles, which often celebrate such events with unique digital artwork on the homepage. When the Guardian inquired about the status of Doodles, Google did not provide a direct answer, stating instead that “Google actively celebrates and promotes cultural moments across our products,” including a Black History Month playlist still available on YouTube Music.