Google Logo Tweak Sends Critics Into Orbit

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 9, 2007 | Jim Puzzanghera

[kellynla]

The Google clowns don't mind profiting from being in America but like the rest of the Lefties in the entertainment industry & media, they sure have a problem being patriots now don't they...

[kellynla]

ping

[fishtank]

Google again ignores 9/11 (Dogpile comes through YET again)

[SuziQ]

I don’t mind them showcasing different things, but they do tend to downplay or ignore expressly American holidays or achievements, which is annoying. But they’re a independent company, so they can do as they wish. I still like Google, and use it ALL the time!

[weegee]

Has Google been outed at the LATvia Times for censoring poltical content on Google.cn?

[Westlander]

Never have used gaggle. Try this instead-they do not access gaggle for searches.

http://livesearch.alltheweb.com/

[Hemingway's Ghost]

said conservative blogger Giovanni Gallucci, 39, a social media consultant from Dallas

Phony-sounding job alert!

[ChurtleDawg]

this a ridiculous non-controversy. I saw the logo. It didn’t bother me at all

[weegee]

There was an FR thread the day they made the logo change and a number of posters said “lighten up”. It isn’t just the things that Google chooses to commemorate that irks conservatives, it is the things that they choose to ignore as well.

[Yo-Yo]

"Lighten up, Francis."

Sputnik did start the space race, and was the direct motivation that spurred the US to the Moon.

I don't have a problem recognizing history. Only totalitarian regimes attempt to rewrite history and make certain people and events "nonpersons."

[BenLurkin]

Jim Puzzanghera registered on FR the other day and sent me a FReepmail.

Jim, sorry but I usually delete Freepmails from newbies.

[lormand]

The tyranny that Google coddles would ordinarily give someone who espouses "progressive" ideas the creeps. However, "progressives", aka, stinkin' liberals, have no shame, morals, or ethics.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

There was an FR thread the day they made the logo change and a number of posters said “lighten up”. It isn’t just the things that Google chooses to commemorate that irks conservatives, it is the things that they choose to ignore as well.

If "conservatives," as a whole, are so thin-skinned as to be offended by something like this, then they deserve to be ridiculed as much as normal people ridicule perpetually-offended liberals.

[Westlander]

Check this out.

http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm

[Alter Kaker]

Google again ignores 9/11 (Dogpile comes through YET again)

I take it you feel that the appropriate way to memorialize the 3000 dead is for a search engine to create a colorful cartoonish logo? Are you nuts? I'd be offended if they DID do that.

[fishtank]

Very respectful.

[BenLurkin]

"Google's decision to self-censor its search engine in China to comply with the Communist government's online rules also has drawn condemnation from Republicans."

Only Republicans?

[montag813]

This is silly. Of course the USSR was a hated enemy. But they were first into space. You cannot change that fact. Just as the Nazis were the first to launch a missile in warfare.

[Halgr]

“Jim Puzzanghera registered on FR the other day and sent me a FReepmail.”

I deleted mine too....why would I respond to a representative of the dark side.....

[wastedyears]

I’m right at the part when Winston is out of the chair. I’ve never read it before, and the things going on in the book are quite alarming.