Posted on 10/09/2007 7:27:54 AM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON -- Should the world's most-used search engine be more of a Yankee Google Dandy?
Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful home-page logo to commemorate special occasions. But now they are drawing criticism from conservatives for not being more patriotic.
The Mountain View, Calif., company bathes its logo in stars and stripes every Independence Day, but last week's decision to honor the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch -- the second "g" in Google was replaced with a drawing of the Soviet satellite -- is being blasted by some conservatives.
Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.
"It's a kick to your belly," said conservative blogger Giovanni Gallucci, 39, a social media consultant from Dallas. "I understand these guys are scientists and engineers and they have their quirks and want to make sure people are recognized who might not normally be recognized . . . but why not celebrate the struggles that we've come through as a people?"
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Gee, I have to work on Columbus Day and Veteran’s Day.
They do recognize Christmas and Easter. Do we really need to ask why?
Google is the world's pre-eminent Internet company.
Celebrating Sputnik is a way of honoring their own heritage.
And conservatives are once again going out of their way to find something irrelevant to take offense at. We should save our outrage for the big spenders in Congress.
“It didn’t bother me at all”
Same here -
Without the Russian launch of Sputnik, we may never have had the reason to make the effort to get to the moon.
It reminds us that the rest of the world is not standing still in their research, and if we want to be on top we have to keep moving.
That is silly. Sputnik had everything to do with exploration of space. It was a satellite not a missile. Come on now. It doesn't matter what it indirectly "meant" in the historical context of the Cold War. They beat us fair and square into space, and the event should be recognized.
Well, then maybe we shouldn't recognize Wherner von Braun, who designed the V-2 for Nazi Germany, and also designed most of the post WW II US Space program up to and including Apollo.
“False. Google remains Memorial-Day challenged. But not for want of help:”
Thanks.
I was going by earlier threads where Freepers posted the one with the soldiers with their arms around each other.
Our Germans were better than their Germans.
Which, of course, is why the story runs now. Running it to point out skipping 911 doesn't fit "the template".
MSM bas#%rds!
Lots of other search engines to use, including scroogle which uses google but claims to put a firewall between you & googles data base.
No, it's not silly at all. The reason that Sputnik had the US in such a panic is that it proved that the Soviets had a viable ICBM at a time when the US did not.
It actually takes more energy to put something into low Earth orbit than it does for a suborbital ballistic trajectory. If the Soviets could put Sputnik into orbit, then they could deliver a nuke to the US.
Damn straight. von Braun told his team they could either be captured by the Soviets or the Americans. They ran to the Americans.
And as it’s name implies “Vengeance”, it was specifically designed to kill humans, and actually did. Sputnik did not.
The differences are readily apparent and significant, irrespective of the political issues. And Google did it once, on the 50th anniversary of Sputnik.
This is all to me "Phony Outrage".
You just don’t get it, do you?
The Google goons are a bunch of anti-military Leftists who purposely refuse to commemorate American Military Veterans both alive & dead...and their families while commemorating the Commie achievement.
Well you Google apologists can continue to make excuses for the Google goons and I will continue to expose the military hating Leftists.
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
Good day!
The Soviets wanted the ability to put something into orbit as the first step in having the ability to attack America using missiles.
Nobody could seriously suggest that the Soviets gave a darn about “exploring” space. Oh sure they had some dreamers, but those guys got their heads with the program after some of them spent some time in the Gulags.
USSR stated its goals in the words of Kruschev: “We will bury you.”
Understood that Google is a private company trying to make money in international markets. So be it. It's their site, their logo and really their business. I get that.
But I personally remain disinclined to celebrate a major Soviet milestone on their path to burying America.
#55 nails it!
“Our Germans were better than their Germans.”
My favorite was “I aimed for the stars...but sometimes I hit London”
This is one of the stupidest things EVER to get mad about. Doesn’t matter what a bunch of jerk Google is, Sputnik was one of the greatest human achievements ever and the 50th anniversary was celebrated by space nerds everywhere. The space race that Sputnik caused led directly to the very internet you and Google are using right now, any internet company that didn’t celebrate Sputnik was demonstrating ignorance in history, any any person upset because somebody celebrated Sputnik is just showing themselves to be a knee jerk moron going through life looking for stupid reason to get mad. People need to get a life.
Agreed. Sometimes it makes you wonder if "they" create controversies like that so as to make you miss something else....
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