[Leaning Right]

Interesting that you are seeing a yellow ribbon (and perhaps a flag). I am running Chrome and I usually can usually see the junk Google puts up on special days.

But I see neither a ribbon nor a flag, maybe it's a browser thing.

[corlorde]

I noticed it isn’t on my start page but it is on theirs:

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en