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Google is politically correct. How sad. Michelle Malkin reports:
A reader notes that Google usually changes its logo on holidays such as St. Patrick's Day, World Water Day, and so on. So, he asks, "why no logo for Easter?"
'Sounds like the good folks at Google may be in the no-more-Mr-Easter-bunny camp. We're tempted to start searching elsewhere. How petty, how petulant, how pathetic. Here's how they see themselves, all warm and fuzzy, as described in a Korea Herald article:
With its seemingly magical ability to produce the most relevant search results, Google is already an established destination for the Internet savvy. Recently, [Dennis] Hwang's creative logos have been expressing the playful heart of Google behind the impressive technology.
That's what we had thought, too, till now. Can Michelle's reader be right? Says multiculturalist Google logo artist Hwang:
Google makes a big effort to recognize holidays that aren't necessarily mainstream.
Yah, and a big effort to avoid recognizing traditional American holidays? We noticed they did have Easter logos in 2000 and 2001. Maybe it's just a reflection of designer Hwang's taste. Or is it a p.c. agenda from the guys upstairs?
That's strange, because I saw Google's Easter logo a few days ago on a page of results... Why would they remove it ON Easter day itself? Hmmm....
Posted by: pam | March 28, 2005 at 11:05 AM
I'm glad someone else noticed that. I got all excited on Sunday morning the split second between the time I typed in google.com in my url bar and the time the page loaded, wondering what cool logo I'd see for Easter, (because I love cool logos, and I love that Google does different ones each holiday) and I was met with plain ol' google logo. Humph. I got more peeved as I sat there, thinking about it; I mean, World Water Day? World feckin' WATER Day? WTF, Chuck? 3/4 of the surface of the earth (small "e" please) is covered with water and we need a feckin' holiday for that?!?
I wouldn't even mind it, if it weren't for the omission of a holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Christ, which a full third of the global population recognizes, if not celebrates. Irony alert: I used google to find that statistic. At least they still crawl religious web pages...
Good grief.
Posted by: willow | March 29, 2005 at 06:25 PM
Hi, Willow. Glad to know you're out there keeping your head as those around you are losing theirs. :)
Posted by: Sissy Willis | March 29, 2005 at 06:30 PM
:) Feels more like I'm losing my mind actually. Only three more weeks of school...woohoo!
Posted by: willow | March 30, 2005 at 11:42 AM
Give 'em HELL!
Posted by: Sissy Willis | March 30, 2005 at 01:34 PM