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!
Um - then use another search engine.
I generally do...
You don't understand. Competing in the marketplace is a foreign concept to most FReepers when it comes to Google. They believe that they're entitled to a conservative search engine.
Thanks for posting this. Just confirms my decision to NEVER google. I mainly use clusty.com.
"umm", if Google doesn't bother you, if this whole issue means nothing to you ... why reply to this topic?
There's always one guy who thinks he is smarter than everyone else, isn't there!?
Wrong again. But we DO have every right to try to PREASSURE any organization to LISTEN to their customers, now DON'T we???
Or are you one of those who imagine that if you turn away from something it will just go away? Let's see how the next bomb in a building you are in will go away if we all turn away from the war on terror, for instance.
Oops, I guess you don't know how to change your opening page do you. Or perhaps you are a communist and don't believe in the competitive marketplace.
All I hear is you crying waa waa, I don't like google. Well use something else. Does someone have a gun to your head forcing you to use it? Start your own search engine if you want. it doesn't make me smarter than you, just wiser.
Sure, if you want to take a page from the lefties.
Or are you one of those who imagine that if you turn away from something it will just go away?
No, I'm one of those who believe in free enterprise and competition. #1 - Don't like Google, don't use it - but have fun because all of the other search engines are liberal and uses Google's database. #2 - Create your own search engine.
Screw google crap.
Use www.clusty.com, instead. Way better than google crap.
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Potentially more telling, a May 15 “Washington Prowler” piece at The American Spectator disclosed a link between Google and the ultra-left wing MoveOn.org:
Google has become the single largest private corporate underwriter of MoveOn. According to sources in the Democrat National Committee, MoveOn has received more than $1 million from Google and its lobbyists in Washington to create grassroots support for the Internet regulation legislation [“Net Neutrality”]. Some of that money has gone to an online petition drive and a letter-writing campaign, but the majority of that money is being used to fund their activities against Republicans out in the states.
Beyond this, Google appears intimately tied to former vice president and potential 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore. It is no secret that Gore is a senior advisor to Google, a position that garnered him a sizable number of shares according to Fox News political analyst Susan Estrich. On May 19’s “The Big Story,” Estrich discussed with host John Gibson Gore’s connection with Google, and how the wealth generated from the shares he owns in the Internet behemoth could give him enough money to finance his own presidential campaign.
This relationship goes further. According to a recent Wired magazine article about Gore, he is extremely close to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt who “supported Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign.” Moreover, in April 2005, Google partnered with Gore’s cable channel, Current.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Oc_iKZ5n100J:rightvoices.com/2006/05/22/google-censorship-and-ties-to-gore/+Google+Gore&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9
It's kind of sad. They change their homepage logo for all sorts of holidays and occasions. Just last week they paid tribute to Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday.
But Memorial Day doesn't seem to rate anything at all.
Update: A reader sends this along:
It's worse than you think. Google doesn't always do logos for the same days every year, but they've never changed their logo for Memorial Day.
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
[Jonah Goldberg]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWJkZjZjNDFiZmVjM2U0MWY1MzhjMDRlYTRlMTdmYTc=
FReepers seem to assume that a company should reflect their political beliefs, neglecting that Google must attract more than just an American user base, let alone the right-wing pro-military segment of our society.
Google is an international company. They seek an international user base - not just patriotic Americans. Putting up a Memorial Day sign might offend those in other countries.
Memorial Day, lost something when it was changed to a "Monday Holiday". That being said, Memorial Day is still here for us who choose to use it as a call to remember. Forcing or blackmailing someone to remember is just silly. People have to want to do it.
Google is country specific; if you've traveled overseas you'd know that Google.com is inaccessible from most countries.
We no longer use Google as a search engine.
I've never Googled..I've always Yahooed.
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