Oh bullshit. They are big enough where they don't have to stick their tongue up Trump's ass.
Considering how Trump can legally do whatever he likes and even if the law wasn't there to back him up it soon would be, it seems to me that Google has the choice of resisting by lawful means and maybe get in a long and expensive legal battle with us.gov that in any case they would logically lose... or they can rename a patch of water to 'Gulf of America', it's a corporate no-brainer isn't it?
There may be a hill that Google would choose to win or die on (if in fact there are any at all in Google's opinion), but of all the causes they could choose this seems like the most pathetic one. RWM would line up behind Trump and accuse Google of dragging the gov into a long and expensive taxpayer-funded legal battle for no good reason. They would stand no chance of swaying public opinion in their favour over this.
As much as I detest the idea of anyone kowtowing to the childish whims of a bigoted demented de-facto dictator, it's easy to see why Google has done this: When you have everything to lose, choose the fights that you have a chance of winning, and for winning to be worth a shit. Manbaby wants a patch of water to be renamed. Who gives a shit.
Maybe if this had happened near an upcoming election and RWM's support for Trump was already wavering, then maybe it would have been the right time and place, with RWM ready to put out lots of articles that it is in fact Trump wasting taxpayer resources with childish stupidity, then maybe Google could turn the situation against Trump.