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)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!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?
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!
Google is commie, no doubt about it. Owned by commies and coordinates with Chinese commies.
OK then. But don't expect much.
Me thinks EEE and ERF have some investments in the Gaggle.
http://www.dogpile.com/ has a great pic today. Great.
Yes, I do.
It's called the "Saving me time when I look up stuff" investment.
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?
I noticed MSN didn't change my home page as well!!! WGAFF
Who Gives...
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!
I noticed this one also. They have decorations for every other day but not memorial day. I'm looking for another search engine.
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
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.
Cute!
I just went to clusty.com and they aren't commemorating Memorial Day either. Screw them, I'm never going back there again.
Did I zee the washing post? I won't have anything to do with the washing post.
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