On D-Day Google honors video game's anniversary

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | June 06, 2009 | Drew Zahn

[Man50D]

With the world's eyes turned to Normandy as President Obama and European leaders honor the sacrifice of Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, Internet giant Google chose to honor this 65th anniversary of D-Day by memorializing the birth of a video game.

The search engine's homepage, often the site of commemorative graphics interwoven with its Google name on special occasions, chose this day to display the multi-colored blocks of the classic game Tetris, which was created by Russian computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov and made playable for the first time on June 6, 1984.

Scrolling over the blocks reveals the words, "Celebrating 25 years of the Tetris Effect – courtesy of Tetris Holding, LLC."

And while the anniversary of Tetris' birth finds it unique in popular culture as one of the world's most popular and enduring video games, Google's choice to honor it today has nonetheless been met with sharp criticism.

"Today marks the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny, and what does Google do? Instead of putting up an image to honor the sacrifices made and the triumph of good over evil, they honor Tetris?" comments the writer of A Blog for All. "The world owes a debt of honor to the brave men who stormed ashore at Normandy and parachuted in to roll [back] the Nazi conquest of Europe. This is what they came up with for today?"

[Past Your Eyes]

But it was bigger than the tiny yellow ribbon they had on Memorial Day.
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[wastoute]

When I asked the folks in our office if any of them knew what historic day Saturday was none of them did. One is even an Army vet (twenty something, though). Damn shame. I have tried to spend at least some small part of each June 6th for the last 40 years or more remembering the sacrifice of those precious men. Where did we ever get such men? Will we ever see Americans willing to make such sacrifices again? One would pray that it never be required but it appears the timie is coming. Clouds are definitely on the horizon.

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[Man50D]

Will we ever see Americans willing to make such sacrifices again?

Ask that question to those hospitalized at Bethesda who have served and sacrificed in Iraq and Afghanistan and the families whose members lost their lives in those countries for our country.

[wastoute]

Of course. You are absolutely correct and I stand rebuked.

God Bless you for doing so and them for making the sacrifice.

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[STONEWALLS]

...I really dislike Google and wish them ill....since one of their founders is a Russian born Jew you’d think they’d be glad to be in this country....time was, the NKVD would have taken him down to the basement and put a bullet in his head.

[gdzla]

www.bing.com

[Always Right]

It is no secret that Google is anti-American and anti-Christian.

[RandallFlagg]

What the hell?!?!

Bastards.

[Jedidah]

Hey, it’s a free country. At least for now. So far, Big O and his minions haven’t bought us a stake in Google.

Google can do whatever it wants with its website, just as Jim Robinson can do whatever he wants with Free Republic.

And you have the freedom to use — or not use — either of them.

[WorkingClassFilth]

What is an equally effective alternative to Google?

[Always Right]

You can use Clusty...it is probably better. Google searches suck anymore. Mostly the paid sites show up on searches. It use to be easy to find obscure info on Google, now you have to dig through a bunch of crap to find anything.

[USAF70]

This one doesn’t record your IP address:

http://www.ixquick.com/

[12Gauge687]

At Blackfive.net (milblog founded by veteran), I saw a link to a Google employee who created a map (locating the hometowns of all our fallen service personnel) as a tribute to them and their families.

A vet acquaintance from San Jose told me most of the folks at Google have been pretty friendly to him. However, he feels a lot of the top management have a Kumbaya Trekkie (as in Star Trek) attitude towards the world.

[knife6375]

http://www.alltheweb.com

[myknowledge]

Do you want to run a search engine that is patriotic and pro-Christian, like creating a theme page for a significant anniversary or religious event rather than just squander it on a G.D. video game?