Posted on 09/14/2005 5:37:46 AM PDT by imintrouble
I'm considering using Google next year.
I suspect that Google is going to blow it by getting political to a greater and greater extent. They are successful now because they are seen as a neutral party
they haven't been neutral since Bush won in 2000
Thank you! :)
And besides that, the foreign google sites (like www.google.de) do not show the special holiday logos anyway.
they do a big spill for Christmas and other holidays,,wonder how their islamanac friends feel about that?
They publish all the logos they have used throughout their existence at
http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html
Alot of them seem location specific.
I support Google's right to post whatever they want, just as I support customers/users to vote with their feet/wallet.
Pssst. FR didn't have a memorial anything up either. The day is defined by an attack on our country not a few squiggly lines on a logo.
crap, you just HAD to get that in before my little rant
lol
I got the same form reply for Memorial day. Funny Earth Day, now that they can have a logo for.
Screw em, will just use one of the alternative search engines.
Here's a thought. The companies that pay google to be placed at the top of the search, pay for each click on their link. ( I doubt if they pay more than once per person, so no point in hitting tehm multiple times.)
It might be interesting, however, to email these companies and tell them that you do no wish to patronize anyone who pays google, and by doing so, contributes to political parties you oppose.
As the article states, their Google adwords is just plain awful. They feed so many left-wing political ads that I just dropped them after a few weeks of trying to filter all the garbage ads out.
Hey, they didn't put a cute logo for the 4th of July either. I sent an e-mail and by the end of the day a logo appeared. At the time I thought is was an oversight but now I'm sure the patriotism of the 4th of July is just too much to bear for these kooks.
Yes, but the public perception is that they have been neutral. Eventually, they will become so outrageous that this perception will change. As soon as that happens, they are lost.
It's not so much that people insist on Google's having logos in the first place, it's that people are pointing out the leftist bias they demonstrate in their choice of which holidays or important days to commemorate, and how they design logos on Christian holidays or days that are significant in American history.
Well the power of the people can be very powerful when people using their services IS their business.
I post on a site in Canada which is conservative in their primary ideology and advertises as such, however to finance their site, they utilize Google Ads - and some of the anti-Bush ads are outrageous.
These people have grown way beyond their need. I don't see ads in Dictionaries or Research Collections. The use and purchase of the service is the business right?
Not political activism.
I will use other engines as often as I can if their claim to fame is hits. We can certainly give them what they deserve for their lies...... shunning.
I use Google exclusively as my search engine. Excellent results.
If that is your take, then my response is the same: Google's leftist bias is not an existential threat to any freedoms we have.
You mean they wouldn't want to put up anything that would offend the international terrorist community. Afterall, terrorists google too!
I agree. Personally I don't like the idea of memorializing a day we got our collective asses kicked by a bunch of dropouts.
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