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I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the room at Google where the discussions are being had as to what to label the lake. If I'm to be charitable, I'd assume they've renamed it because they're consistently following an internal rule which says they use geographic names from the GNIS, which was updated by the executive order, and they haven't yet decided whether they should make an exception in this case. Every nonsensical rename in the GNIS weakens its credibility as an accurate database. I'm sure the debates are interesting. We don't actually know if this is Google "bending the knee" or sticking with the rename for some other more technical reason.
Google has no decision to make here. They have a policy and system that aligns geographical names based on country records. The rest of the world will continue to see Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. Those are not the only two conflicted names across the world, there are far more.
google maps, australia