What makes this different is that Google's little artwork celebrates this second rate sci-fi author. Postmortem, on what was to be her 71st birthday.
What is the significance in that ? Oh wait.. THERE IS NONE.
Another sublime Google exercise in luring people into leftism and communism. As soon as I can figure out a way to get a cell phone without the presence of Google, Apple or Microsoft the happier I'll be.
personally, I like duckduckgo.com.
I haven’t used Google search in many years. StartPage works just fine. And doesn’t track your searches.
https://startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl
“Second rate” is a big strong—her novels are good imho, but Google’s attempt to idolize her is way over the top for sure.
It is a good thing they haven’t discovered Steven Barnes. (Lion’s Blood, Zulu Heart) :-)
(Those sci-fi novels are about blood-thirsty blacks slaughtering white people—maybe a bit too violent for the kumbaya lefty crowd.)
Octavia Butler was not 2nd rate. For her time, she was a star. Maybe she needed some marketing help from Ellison et al and sure, a MacArthur grant never hurts when it comes to supporting a writing career, but I read her when she first published and several of her series over again, a few within the past few years. She could write clearly. She understood that each sentence drives the plot. She drew on people she knew for characters, but they aren’t all black and none are stereotypes of that time. She had some ongoing health issues. Socially, she was withdrawn. Probably gay...I don’t know for sure. But she could write and her science fiction ideas were intriguing.
Goog is evil....but that’s nothing to do with Butler.
Does anyone go to school any more, to learn English, grammar and clarity of the written word?
The very first sentence in the poster comment (reply 1) should be... Google is or is not doing blah blah blah...
I hope this isn't going to be another of those days at FR.
Off to try to make sense today of a truly eff'd up and dystopian culture in the criminal, inept kakistocracy that is Calipornia..
Google’s daily virtue signaling.
Google has 93% of the search market on phones and over 90% overall. Anyone who thinks a little boycott is going to change anything is living in fantasy land.
Use what you want, I’ll use what I want. Freedom of choice.
They do this all the time.
Yet they ‘commemorated’ Memorial Day with a tiny, unnoticeable, almost not even there, American flag at the very bottom of the page.
If anybody asks me, I recommend Slimjet as a browser with the AdBlockPlus, ReaderView, and Ghostery add-ons and DuckDuckGo for searches. Google sucks.
From your link:
Scholarship Fund
The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship enables writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start. Visit the fund page for more info.
That’s racist.
Use Google, just avoid clicking on any of their links to sites which are marked as ads (word “ad” appearing in a small square). The same company’s site without the ad link will appear later down in the search results.
Use them, but starve them of their ad dollars.
Hold it right there. Octavia Butler is black. Science fiction was created by whites. This is cultural appropriation.
What’s Google?
Big Internet needs to be broken up. I’m not a huge fan of antitrust, but this might be a really good use for it.
Most annoying is RETRO-afroism:
Black Vikings, black leprachauns, black knights, black cowboys, etc.