Missing in Action: Google Veterans Day Logo

Google Missing In Action ^ | 11 November 2004 | Me

[antaresequity]

Todays Logo from Google

Conspicuously absent from Google is a special logo for Veterans Day. Google has a long history of opposing firearms and supporting left wing causes.

Google also cherry picks its side bar advertising with a left wing bias.

Do a search on Bush and then Kerry and see for yourself.

Shame on Google.

Google Special Logos Here

Google has managed to craft special logos for Bastille Day (screw France), Earth Day, Canada Day, MLK day, a host of left wing artists and more...

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Happy Veterans Day: I send my heartfelt thanks to all United States veterans for all times...thank you for my freedom, and the freedom of my family.

[antaresequity]

Bastards...

[starfish923]

Google's owners are liberals...or didn't you know that?
Flying the flag, honoring our soldiers and displaying patriotism isn't a hallmark of liberals.

[Sociopathocracy]

Time to use aother search engine. Are there any owned by conservatives?

[SquirrelKing]

Bastille Day! Bwuhahahaha!

[PeteB570]

$crew Google, I've got my flag on the front porch and am going out the door to the local parade in a few minutes.

[SuperSonic]

[Swede Girl]

Thanks for the heads-up on this. Yes, they have had logos for everything else, even the Olympics. They are clever, but now I will be on the watch for the lack of any patriotic themes. The irony is that veterans have fought and are fighting for the very freedom and good quality of life that the people behind this company are currently enjoying.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Go here and sample one our FR tributes to Veterans through graphics and poems. Screw Google.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1276105/posts?page=61#61

[dhuffman@awod.com]

I removed Google (its toolbar) when they put hearts and flowers on my computer for Valentine's Day. I learned to despise Google when they insisted on using joint o gether.org asm as a 'news' source. When I questioned them on that, I was given a boilerplate nyah-nyah answer.

Google is a left-coast left-wing operation. I abuse them when I must.

[MadPenguin]

Time to use aother search engine. Are there any owned by conservatives?

I don't know the political leanings of the owners, but from a technical standpoint recommend you try www.clusty.com for searching. (Clusty is short for cluster, as in the engine they developed.) It has features the others don't (e.g. they group the results on the left side for easier parsing.) They're now my primary search resource.

[Constitution Day]

Thanks for the suggestion, I will check that one out.

[DJ MacWoW]

I use Dogpile search engine. I don't like Google as I get screwy results.

[ArmyBratCutie]

I sent emails to all these losers:



Google Media Hotline
+1.650.930.3555 or
press@google.com


Corporate PR
David Krane
+1.650.623.4096
david@google.com

Corporate PR
Steve Langdon
+1.650.623.4950
slangdon@google.com

Advertising PR
Michael Mayzel
+1.650.623.4565
mmayzel@google.com

Technology PR
Nathan Tyler
+1.650.623.4311
nate@google.com

Consumer PR
Eileen Rodriguez
+1.650.623.4235
eileen@google.com

[TruthSetsUFree]

Just was reading an article linked from Drudge that Microsoft is going to be launching a rival to Google:

Microsoft Launches Web Search Technology

I THINK that Bill Gates of MS is a Bush supporter. Perhaps someone else knows for sure.

(This is my first post to FR tho I've been lurking for ages. FR has become my number one source of news and excellent commentary. :) Anyway ... hopefully the link turns out okay.)

[garyhope]

Thanks. I will speak to them about this.

[miltonim]

I used to find old FreeRepublic articles easily through Google. Not anymore.

[USMC-EOD]

As someone who spends an extensive amount of time on the Google site, I'm truly disappointed. But, since Bill has donated major $$ to the Republican party (as well as several Demoncrats too, but more towards the good guys), I guess I'm going to have to switch when their engine gets up and going.

Truly disappointing, but not unexpected.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Thanks for the info. I had already emailed google. they are making millions in this great country. F.... them!
I too will switch to another search engine. come on, hurry up Gates!

[logic]

My understanding was that Gates was quite a liberal, but perhaps he re-thought his position after Clinton/Reno caused him so much grief. remember "a conservative is merely a liberal who got mugged!!"

[Psycho_Bunny]

Back in the day, Google was a great search engine.

Now it just sucks.

[dware]

Time to use aother search engine. Are there any owned by conservatives?

I use and will continue to use Google daily in my duties as a Private Investigator. In addition, I have used it countless times to research information on leftist socialist causes & people. Finally, my stock portfolio has seen a very substantial increase over the past few months since Google went public. If this is how they want to send their petty messages, sobeit. The fact is, our guy is in the White House, and Google helps me make money on a daily basis.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thank you! I sent an e-mail to each address. I'll post responses...if I get any.

[FightforFreedomCA]

Thanks for the email addresses. This really irks me. I'm switching to someting else and removing it from my toolbar.

[Egg]

A former Google user, I switched to www.alltheweb.com earlier this year after Google refused advertising from a Christian website because they supposedly "promoted hatred and intolerance of homosexuals." Now they have a policy of refusing advertisements for guns and ammunition:

"At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain 'firearms and ammunition.' As noted in our advertising terms and conditions, we reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes to the advertising we accept on our site. This content is not permitted as ad text or keywords."

(read more about this here: http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1223736.html ).

Google is far left.

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

[Jonx6]

I noticed that first thing this morning and wrote them an email.

[montag813]

Time to use aother search engine. Are there any owned by conservatives?

Yeah. It's called "FreeRepublic.com". The only site I need.

[ShowMeMom]

My email to everyone at Google:

Looking at your logo today, it would seem that you are not aware that today is Veterans Day. Perhaps you could do a Google search to verify that fact and then suggest to your graphics department that they create something appropriate to honor the thousands of veterans who have made your freedom (and wealth) possible.

[cwiz24]

Here is the email I sent and the reply I received within the hour...

I am disappointed in your neglect to create a Veteran's Day logo, especially while we have troops deployed overseas. Recently, you have gone so far as to have special logos for Ray Charles' birthday, the winning of the X prize, and the birthday of Gaston Julia. But nothing for Veteran's Day? I sincerely hope this was a careless oversight on your part and not an attempt to make a political statement. Whether you agree with the current mission or not, it does not change the fact that thousands of soldiers (past and present) have put their own lives on the line merely because their country needed them. Veteran's Day does not just honor the soldiers of the current conflict, but also remembers the brave actions of those soldiers that fought in all of history's wars. Thousands and thousands of children grew up without fathers because of the solemn and selfless duty of soldiers and countless young men were permanently disabled due to their service. At the very least, I think these sacrifices deserve some Google-logo recognition and respect.

Response:
Thank you for your note. We're glad that you appreciate Google's holiday logos and would like to explain why we didn't post one for Veterans Day this year. Please be assured that the decision whether to display a special logo for a holiday does not reflect any judgment on our part about the holiday itself. Google's special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature. If we were to commemorate Veterans Day, we would want to express reverence, rather than mirth. This would be a particularly challenging design. We would not want to, in any way, create a graphic that could be interpreted as disrespectful. In light of the mail we've received about this, we're actively considering designs we could display on this day next year. We welcome any suggestions you may have. Regards, The Google Team

[KwasiOwusu]

Google has always been full of loony left anti-Bush bias right from the get go.
Hopefully the new Microsoft search engine that comes out today, will start to chop away at these pathetic Google creeps' market share..

[antaresequity]

What a crock of crap...Veterans Day a challenging theme?

As far as I can tell, they also havn't done a logo for Presidents Day...I suppose Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln are challenging themes as well?

[antaresequity]

Can you fix the title? Misspelled "Veterans"

[maine-iac7]

Good Catch!

Let's let Google know how we feel!

[Jn316]

:(

How sad and ironic.

Email sent...checking out alltheweb...

[Constitution Day]

That search engine works very well!

As a test, and since we're discussing Veterans Day, I decided to look for a B-17 from my grandfather's WW2 squadron.
I found it! I've only seen one other ref. to this B-17 on the 'net.
It was shot down in Mar 1944 with only 3 survivors. He was part of the ground crew.

I have the photos he saved; here is the one I found through Clusty:

B-17 "Stop And Stare"

[Range Rover]

Alternatives:

Teoma

AltaVista

Mamma

I tend to use multiple engines....not a real Google fan. The used to be good...no longer impressed with the quality of links I see when I have used them lately. Suspicious of any engine that has Pay for Placement AND I have contracted spyware from a few sites CACHED by Google. F*** that.

Want to get "back" at them? Search for meta search engines on Google and find something better.....HA!!!!!

[smith288]

I THINK that Bill Gates of MS is a Bush supporter. Perhaps someone else knows for sure.

NOT AT ALL. He has donated but as far as his actions, HUGE liberal twit.

[ZombieReagan]

They've got no problem with Independence Day...

[B Knotts]

Check this out:

They do have a special poppy logo for Google UK. So, apparently, they just couldn't bear the thought of honoring American veterans.

[Jonx6]

I got the same response.

[ultramagna]

Come on Google, get a life...or go to Canada :)

[ultramagna]

Come on Google, get a life...or go to Canada :)

What's so difficult with that logo?!? Huh?????

[boycottgoogleads.com]

Thanks to whoever started this thread - I just added a link to this from my website. Yet another reason to dislike Google.

Regards,
James
http://www.boycottgoogleads.com
http://blog.boycottgoogleads.com