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Google Ignores Memorial Day
Newsbusters.org ^ | 5/29/06

Posted on 05/29/2006 11:32:45 AM PDT by 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!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: againdammit; google; memorialday; norespect
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To: Mobile Vulgus

61 posted on 05/29/2006 1:44:17 PM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I think it's a pretty good use of time to point out companies with an anti-American bias, especially on Memorial Day...and especially from the belly of the beast (Seattle), where Memorial Day celebrations have been canceled due to a "lack of interest."

You spend the day the way you want to, I'll spend it the way I want to.

By the way, if you're so busy with beer and brats, what are you doing responding to my google rant?
62 posted on 05/29/2006 2:19:14 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Google is commie, no doubt about it. Owned by commies and coordinates with Chinese commies.


63 posted on 05/29/2006 2:33:36 PM PDT by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
From the google holiday logos list, linked on the original article, http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html, it appears they've never done a special logo for Memorial Day or Veterans Day in the past seven years.
64 posted on 05/29/2006 2:45:28 PM PDT by heleny
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To: Mobile Vulgus; SE Mom
My arcane 2006 calender shows May 29 as Memorial Day observed and May 30 as Memorial Day. It was always May 30 until the gov't decided we would spend alot more money if we had a 3 day weekend. Besides, everybody already knows that Google is run by a bunch of commie symps.
Like I said, I am withholding judgement until tomorrow. Thanks SE Mom
65 posted on 05/29/2006 2:56:09 PM PDT by RedwM
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To: RedwM

OK then. But don't expect much.


66 posted on 05/29/2006 3:52:22 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: torchthemummy

Me thinks EEE and ERF have some investments in the Gaggle.


67 posted on 05/29/2006 4:20:30 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

http://www.dogpile.com/ has a great pic today. Great.


68 posted on 05/29/2006 4:25:53 PM PDT by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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To: Rennes Templar
Me thinks EEE and ERF have some investments in the Gaggle.

Yes, I do.

It's called the "Saving me time when I look up stuff" investment.

69 posted on 05/29/2006 4:32:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I noticced the absence of Memorial Day icons on Google also, before even reading this. I notice they have recognition of all kind of other days, but why not this one?


70 posted on 05/29/2006 4:46:10 PM PDT by Tigercap
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To: george76; Mobile Vulgus; SoFloFreeper
NEWSBUSTERS.ORG
must steal some of their ideas from Free Republic...this was observed several hours earlier here:
Google (No recognition of Memorial Day)
71 posted on 05/29/2006 4:58:59 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Tigercap

I noticed MSN didn't change my home page as well!!! WGAFF
Who Gives...


72 posted on 05/29/2006 5:02:59 PM PDT by ThirteenFoxtrot
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To: Tigercap
I noticed the absence of Memorial Day icons on Google also, before even reading this. I notice they have recognition of all kind of other days, but why not this one?

I'm not sure. They're run by a bunch of liberals.

But the bigger issue is that are they preventing people or other websites from honoring Memorial Day. I mean, really. A private company doesn't have a Memorial Day graphic on its webpage. The End Times are nigh, I tell ya!

73 posted on 05/29/2006 5:08:20 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

I noticed this one also. They have decorations for every other day but not memorial day. I'm looking for another search engine.


74 posted on 05/29/2006 5:10:53 PM PDT by BJungNan
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To: Xenalyte
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.

Ah. But here you can actually cost Google money. Google has a relationship with the Mozilla browser. Mozilla contains a window which is default set to Google (you can get plug-ins for literally dozens of other searches, everything from imdb to wikipedia). When that window is used, Google accrues a micropayment to Mozilla, even if you don't click the sponsored links.

So you can take money out of Eric Schmidt's pocket (he has so much he won't miss it), and use it to support quality open source software (meanwhile using a browser that does not create a vector for malware into your system, assuming you use Windows).

And it's all via the free market, and you can still get the Google search results to which you are accustomed... if you like having the first eight or ten items being bogus link farm sites that are run by fraudsters to scam folks, go for it.

And as far as the "sponsored links" that XL mentions... how many of them are actually any use? I had to search for palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled today, and the sponsored links offered to sell me Leila Khaled. No thanks. I've lived in muslim lands, and I understand why they bag their women. I would too... I could never date an Arab chick, I like having the largest moustache in the relationship.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

75 posted on 05/29/2006 5:51:38 PM PDT by Criminal Number 18F (America has no native criminal class, apart from Congress -- Mark Twain)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

I don't expect much, but I'm naive enough to want to believe that those that work there are just bucking the man, so to speak, and wait until the 30th. Have a nice day anyway.


76 posted on 05/29/2006 5:56:34 PM PDT by RedwM
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To: RedwM
I use redzee.com http://www.redzee.com
77 posted on 05/29/2006 6:03:30 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Mogger

Cute!


78 posted on 05/29/2006 6:14:49 PM PDT by angcat ("Bin Laden shows others the road to Paradise, but never offers to go along for the ride." GWB)
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To: LibSnubber
Thanks for posting this. Just confirms my decision to NEVER google. I mainly use clusty.com.

I just went to clusty.com and they aren't commemorating Memorial Day either. Screw them, I'm never going back there again.

79 posted on 05/29/2006 6:20:58 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I think Randy Travis must be paying his bills on home computer by now)
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To: RedwM

Did I zee the washing post? I won't have anything to do with the washing post.


80 posted on 05/29/2006 6:29:11 PM PDT by RedwM
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