Google Ignores Flag Day, while rival Microsoft celebrates (honors Pac-Man, Russia Day)

www.foxnews.com ^ | 6-14-12 | Fox News

[NoLibZone]

June 14 is Flag Day, a national holiday celebrating the Stars and Stripes since 1949. But don’t ask Google about it.

The search giant is known for its colorful, interactive logos for everything from the 78th birthday of the inventor of the Moog synthesizer to Earth Day to the anniversary of Pac-Man. But for Flag Day, the company was presenting visitors with nothing but its usual site, declining to play up the red and blue in its logo.

Even Google users noticed the omission.

"You create elaborate doodle's for random holidays like when the Ferris wheel was created, but Memorial Day and Flag Day are totally disregarded," wrote one user on Google's message boards. "Memorial Day at least got a little baby Flag with a ribbon at the bottom of the page. But today, there's nothing?"

Meanwhile, Microsoft fully embraced the national holiday, with a colorful background that shows Old Glory in all its glory: a colorful display of fluttering flags against the backdrop of Rockefeller Center.

[Talisker]

I never quite understood what all the whining is about. Who cares what they have on their home page? Use it for what it is: a search engine. It’s a tool, not a personal/social validator.

Try Google’s mobile competitor for flag day feel good crap: http://www.apple.com/

How about here? http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm

Let’s say your car or house needs a little work. Going to buy crap from Harbor Freight? http://www.craftsman.com/

Should we take you seriously? http://www.freerepublic.com/~nolibzone/

What a ridiculous\childish way to make decisions on what ‘tools’ to use.

But people should reject Google if they put up a Nazi flag, right?

Is the Nazi flag ridiculous\childish? Or not?

And also, people should not judge the Google "tool" based on it's privacy violations or invasive data-mining operations.

Right?

:: spit ::

[SES1066]

I just changed out my search engine to using ‘Bing’.

[reg45]

Yet another reason not to use hemorrhoid phones.

[Gun142]

Did they put up a Nazi flag?
Did they march Jews into “the oven”?

If they didn’t, I find your question “ridiculous\childish”.

Are you saying Bing doesn’t data mine?
Even your ISP does.

Does Bing have an anti-Nazi emblem on their site?
By your logic, Bing must support Hitler.

You have an email account?
It too is data mined.

Spit?
Yea, that’s childish.

Of course, your being so naive about ‘tools’ on the internet is ridiculous given the one-sided and wild accusations\assumptions. Just clasp your hands over your ears and scream LALALALALALA.

BTW, the Easter Bunny isn’t real.
And Santa is dead.

Yes, dead.

[ExCTCitizen]

MicroSoft... thanks for the FLAGS...

[arderkrag]

Is the Nazi flag ridiculous\childish?

In this day and age, yes, a Nazi flag is pretty childish, as Nazis are cocktail party jokes. And that's the way it should be - we kick someone's butt, then we mock them. Infinitely.

[jwalsh07]

MS ain’t exactly conservative but it beats the hell out of Google. Dump google, dump droid at the next opportunity.