Google Ignores Memorial Day

Newsbusters.org ^ | 5/29/06

[Mobile Vulgus]

This from Our friends at Newsbuster.org

NewsBusters reader Mr. Snuggles has pointed out something conspicuously absent from Google’s various pages today – any reference to Memorial Day.(For link:click here)

I’m sure most Googlers are extremely aware of how Google will dress up its logo at its web search or news pages in honor of holidays or special occasions. Google has been known to do this on Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, etc. In fact, here is a display of all the Google holiday logos so far this year, and since 1999. You’ll even find that Google celebrated Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday just a week ago. For those scratching their heads, he created Sherlock Holmes.

Yet, if you go to Google’s home page here, or its news page here, you will see nothing commemorating today’s national holiday. By contrast, Google did honor the Persian New Year on March 21, as well as Louis Braille’s birthday on January 4.

Furthermore, if you go back through the Google archives, you'll find that, although it has over the years commemorated Shichi-go-san being celebrated in Japan, Bastille Day in France, and Korean Liberation Day, it appears that Google has never dressed up its logo for Memorial Day.

Why might that be?

Obviously what we have with Google now is that they have let their 'power" get to their heads. Instead of being the information service they started out to be, they have decided that they should mold content to teach all us idiots on da web who r too stoopid 2 kno what it good and what is bad!

Like the Mainstream Media they have gone from mere reporters, mere chroniclers to activists with the elimination of conservative sites and now deciding not to celebrate our armed forces as the fruits of their turn.

I am about fed up with these jerks!

[tophat9000]

You don't understand. Competing in the marketplace is a foreign concept to most FReepers

How do you figure?... Google offers a product just like the news media or any other company offer a produce...If user of any produce are dissatisfied and tell other user of that produce the what and why there are dissatisfied and then go on to be customers of a competitor... that pure free market

Google was not the first search engine an that not the only search engine Google gained business on satisfied customers telling other and will lose business on dissatisfied customers telling other....That is "Competing in the marketplace"

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Well said. What FReepers also conveniently forget is that the pioneers of the Internet boom of the 90s were liberal youths (College slackers and drop-outs). So FReepers need to stop playa-hating and give the devils their due. If there's one thing liberals know how to do, it's create technology.

[JulieRNR21]

http://www.Dogpile.com

has this Memorial Day tribute on their home page:

[Gorzaloon]

OK, any webmasters who do not know about this, let's ignore Google.

Put this in your robots.txt file

user-agent: google

disallow: /

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

If user of any produce are dissatisfied and tell other user of that produce the what and why there are dissatisfied and then go on to be customers of a competitor... that pure free market

Dude, everything is so interlinked and cross-referenced with Google now, that trying to tell other consumers about Google is a fool's errand. This isn't like telling your neighbor about the bad experience you've experienced at the grocery store, total apples and oranges.

Google built a better mousetrap than the earlier search engines, that tried to be user's homepages by offering them mailboxes and other ad-supported, graphic-intensive crap. People just want to search without the BS.

[Mobile Vulgus]

No, I'm one of those who believe in free enterprise and competition. #1 - Don't like Google, don't use it - but have fun because all of the other search engines are liberal and uses Google's database. #2 - Create your own search engine. No, you believe in utter unaccountability of the corporation. Tell me, oh smarter than everyone else... if you supposedly believe in the "marketplace", how do you imagine that your vaunted "marketplace" will know how to serve their customer if they never get feedback?? Do you imagine a service that is looking to satisfy their customers would like to just sit around until, all of a sudden, all their customers merely disappear? Don't you imagine in that dim little brain of yours that this company MIGHT want to see how their customers FEEL about their company here and there??? I am as much a capitalist as the next guy, but a company simply MUST know what it is their customer WANTS if they wish to continue serving them well. And, if they IGNORE customer complaints, they DESERVE to lose market share! THAT is how capitalism works, pal. Not running around ignoring what a customer wants like YOU seem to imagine it should be. It's obvious you know NOTHING of business and customers. Further more, a society WORKS this way, as well. A society has EVERY right to complain if a company is breaching community standards. Or do you have no desire, like a true utopian libertarian might, to have any such thing as community standards and therefore wish to have chaos??

[NonLinear]

Posted here already

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I've never Googled..I've always Yahooed

Yahoo also supports liberal/Dem causes.

[Xenalyte]

Said it on other threads, will say it here.

Google makes NO MONEY when you search. The only way it makes money is if you click on a Sponsored Link, which shows up on the right when you search.

Google yourself silly. Just don't click Sponsored Links.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Thanks for posting this. I was about to post a vanity.

ASK.com has a memorial ribbon and recognizes Memorial Day.

F Google.

[Xenalyte]

People just want to search without the BS.

That's why I use Google. You can't get any more streamlined than that.

[gpilot]

Hmm.... did I miss the Free Republic Home Page remembrance to Memorial Day?

[RedwM]

I won't pass judgement until tomorrow, the actual Memorial Day.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

how do you imagine that your vaunted "marketplace" will know how to serve their customer if they never get feedback??

Uh...because more liberals use Google than conservatives, and Google can afford to discount the negative feedback from conservatives while retaining their liberal base of users. Honestly, I don't think Google gives a feces about conservatives ripping on them. They're still the #1 search engine and the owners are billionaires. Yeah, we're having an effect on them.

Do you imagine a service that is looking to satisfy their customers would like to just sit around until, all of a sudden, all their customers merely disappear?

So, your idea is the virtual equivalent of marching up and down demanding that Google acquiescence to conservatives.

That's not adhering to conservative principles, that's knee-jerk liberalism.

Don't you imagine in that dim little brain of yours that this company MIGHT want to see how their customers FEEL about their company here and there???

Well, my dim little brain (hang on a sec, it's going to take a while to process the information from my dim little brain) already said that Google doesn't really care about conservatives dissatisfied because they won't put up a Memorial Day graphic on their webpage.

Let's see - Memorial Day is honored on various FR threads, by the government, by other webpages, and by millions of families, and all a handful of conservatives can do is get mad at a website because it won't display a cute little graphic honoring the fallen.

Shouldn't you be out checking the steak on your grill or something? Chugging a cold one with your friends? Who cares about Google, right?

[tongue-tied]

For whatever it is worth, neither has any sort of special tribute as a background. As opposed to Cinco De Mayo on Yahoo (fireworks and some streamers and baloons if I remember correctly.)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

F Google

You got way too much time on your hands if you're complaining about Google on the Internet, especially on Memorial Day.

There's beer, brats, steak, chicken, billiards in them thar hills in your basement!

[P.O.E.]

I stopped using Yahoo since it would most likely return liberal sites, seemingly unrelated to popularity.

For example, it only recently put "Drudge Report" above "Drudge Retort" (a parody site), when you'd search for "Drudge"

[auggy]

I for one appreciate knowing these little tidbits.

Thanks for posting it.

[shield]

EXCELLENT....says it ALL...

[tongue-tied]

LOL....now that is funny. And so true.

So, your idea is the virtual equivalent of marching up and down demanding that Google acquiescence to conservatives.

But I would like to see SOME sort of remembrance. Like I posted earlier, they recognized Cinco De Mayo. Cinco De Mayo and no Memorial Day tribute?!

There's something to be said regarding liberal leaning sites and their transparency.