Posted on 11/11/2006 4:01:58 PM PST by Tim Long
Search engine celebrates Persian New Year, but skips tribute to U.S. soldiers 8 years running
WASHINGTON – The dominant search engine in the world marks special occasions including Halloween, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday, the Persian New Year, the birthday of Percival Lowell, the Lunar New Year, the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Louis Braille's birthday – all celebrated already this year with special graphics and colors.
But for the 8th year in a row, Google has made no effort to commemorate any holiday honoring U.S. veterans or war dead – no tributes to Veterans Day or Memorial Day.
Google's holiday signature is a dressed-up corporate logo for major holidays and lesser-known occasions alike. Besides overlooking Veterans Day and Memorial Day since the company's inception in 1999, it has also ignored Christmas and Easter.
Google has been criticized for its one-sided political contributions and content policies:
Rejecting an ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes Rejecting ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Allowing the communist Chinese government to have the search engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy." In addition, the company came under fire for an editorial decision giving preferential placement to large, elite media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over independent news sources, such as WND, even if they are more recent, pertinent and exhaustive in their coverage.
As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard Dean.
Schmidt also contributed the maximum amount to Sen. Clinton.
Wrong.
Anybody know where I can find the animated picture of the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square, with all the 'Rats in the background?
Why did someone move this to bloggers and personal? This is WND, not a blog.
Not much of a difference...
Really? Have you looked at their logo on Christmas and Easter for the last eight years? I'm impressed.
"Why did someone move this to bloggers and personal? This is WND, not a blog."
Maybe cause you're not a FR donor... *wink*
Otherwise, who knows??
Well, I do know there was a similar thread earlier, BUT it was pure vanity.
http://www.google.com/doodle4.html
http://www.google.com/doodle9.html
Christmas has certainly not been "ignored" by Google.
Once again, WND is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Are those for every year, though?
How can that be? I thought WND was the most objective news source in the world.
They have...
And that is the one I am getting today...at this very moment.
Isn't that a poppy used for celebrating Armistice Day?
I'm getting the standard Google logo right now. The same one as earlier today.
(today is Remembrance Day in Canada)
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