Google has been on a mission to raise its standards of inclusivity and conscientiousness. It previously worked to improve its recommendations and autocompletes, and now it’s improving its workspace products and services.
Google’s new style guide will discourage users and programmers from unnecessarily using sexist, ableist or offensive language.
What this means in practice is that when you type ‘policeman’, for example, Google will ask you to change it to ‘police officer’, similarly ‘chairman’ will become ‘chairperson’ and ‘man hours’ will become ‘person hours’. If you type “there are some crazy outliers in the data”, you will be recommended to change it to “there are some baffling outliers in the data.”
The new feature and style guide were introduced with Google’s…
