France, Feb. 15 -- As Google Maps celebrates the 20th anniversary of its launch in North America, new questions are arising over the way it shapes our view of the world, thanks to its compliance with demands from Donald Trump to change the names of geographic locations.

This anniversary fell onSaturday, 8 February, and on Monday Google announced that it hadchanged the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" for those using its Maps application inside the United States, complying with an executive order by President Trump.

The tech giant wrote in a blog post that users outside the US will continue to see both the original and the new name, created by the Trump administration, for the Gulf of Mexico, as is the case with other ...