Posted on 10/09/2007 7:27:54 AM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON -- Should the world's most-used search engine be more of a Yankee Google Dandy?
Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful home-page logo to commemorate special occasions. But now they are drawing criticism from conservatives for not being more patriotic.
The Mountain View, Calif., company bathes its logo in stars and stripes every Independence Day, but last week's decision to honor the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch -- the second "g" in Google was replaced with a drawing of the Soviet satellite -- is being blasted by some conservatives.
Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.
"It's a kick to your belly," said conservative blogger Giovanni Gallucci, 39, a social media consultant from Dallas. "I understand these guys are scientists and engineers and they have their quirks and want to make sure people are recognized who might not normally be recognized . . . but why not celebrate the struggles that we've come through as a people?"
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I don’t mind them showcasing different things, but they do tend to downplay or ignore expressly American holidays or achievements, which is annoying. But they’re a independent company, so they can do as they wish. I still like Google, and use it ALL the time!
Has Google been outed at the LATvia Times for censoring poltical content on Google.cn?
Never have used gaggle. Try this instead-they do not access gaggle for searches.
http://livesearch.alltheweb.com/
Phony-sounding job alert!
this a ridiculous non-controversy. I saw the logo. It didn’t bother me at all
There was an FR thread the day they made the logo change and a number of posters said “lighten up”. It isn’t just the things that Google chooses to commemorate that irks conservatives, it is the things that they choose to ignore as well.
Sputnik did start the space race, and was the direct motivation that spurred the US to the Moon.
I don't have a problem recognizing history. Only totalitarian regimes attempt to rewrite history and make certain people and events "nonpersons."
Jim, sorry but I usually delete Freepmails from newbies.
If "conservatives," as a whole, are so thin-skinned as to be offended by something like this, then they deserve to be ridiculed as much as normal people ridicule perpetually-offended liberals.
I take it you feel that the appropriate way to memorialize the 3000 dead is for a search engine to create a colorful cartoonish logo? Are you nuts? I'd be offended if they DID do that.
Very respectful.
Only Republicans?
This is silly. Of course the USSR was a hated enemy. But they were first into space. You cannot change that fact. Just as the Nazis were the first to launch a missile in warfare.
“Jim Puzzanghera registered on FR the other day and sent me a FReepmail.”
I deleted mine too....why would I respond to a representative of the dark side.....
I’m right at the part when Winston is out of the chair. I’ve never read it before, and the things going on in the book are quite alarming.
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