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Google likes to alter their logo for holidays and special occasions. Here are some memorable ones.
There’s Earth Day:
Mother’s Day:
Father’s Day:
Martin Luther King, Jr Day:
The Persian New Year:
St. Patrick’s Day:
And of course, the Olympics:
On 9-11, Google celebrated in their own special way. Here’s their 9-11 logo:
It’s funny. It seems to be eerily similar to the logo Google uses for Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day. What a coincidence. I guess it’s important to remember the Persian New Year and the 50th anniversary of Legos, but not 9-11.
Good to know.
Dogpile has a fitting tribute. Maybe we should start using them for our searches instead, hmm?
Bill says: Sad. Just sad.
Scott Patchin says: Show how elite the Google folks can be.
Too bad they aren’t Country First. Some folks aren’t. Too bad.
lorien1973 says: They also celebrated the super collider yesterday.
Handel says: The greatest heartbreak in this country’s history.
An attack that altered the world forever.
Over 3000 people killed.
Now exactly WHY do people think that that should be commemorated? I mean is it REALLY more important than St Patricks day?
(sigh)
PS: Smokin commentary indeed. (reow!)
outta here.
J David says: Google is Eeeeevvviiiilll!
Handel says: PSPS
congrats on the “hotair” link.
>:)
Larry Sheldon says: I don’t use them for my primary search engine, I use something called “Dogpile” (recommended by a mil blog, I think, last Memorial day).
It uses a lot of other engines but while I can’t stop that, I can avoid using the hits the offensive ones present.
And I do.
The most unbelievable one I saw was their commemoration of the 130th birthday of the founder of the Bauhaus. I am not kidding. It’s difficult to imagine a more obscure date to celebrate (130th?!). It’s nice that we have such a noble company, with its vehicles driving up to our houses with 360-degree cameras, and its shoring up of the Great Firewall of China, to make these moral judgments for us.
Joe says: I never had any idea. That’s the last time I use Google for anything. I’ll stick to Yahoo.
Paul Atreides says: Not Surprising: Google ignoring 9-11
Surprising: Google commemorating Father’s Day
Pat Kris says: I’ve been using Dogpile for a while now, screw the google commies.
I do believe Google skipped Memorial Day too. Jerks.
They’ve also commemorated Sputnik, if you recall. Sputnik: great historical event. 9/11? Natch.
Oh, the freakish insanity of the liberal mind.
Stephen says: Is that the 48-state flag?
Rubsy Bailes says: Part and parcel of the left’s ferocious attack on all things good. Try and Google articles that go against anything left and liberal and you won’t find much unless you really dig. Try and find out anything against conservatives and it’s right their. I could say more about what I know about them but I signed a confidentiality statement. You guess what that means.
Becky says: I noticed it first thing this morning. They had a supercollider image this week but NOTHING for 9/11. I am done with Google. That was the last straw.
You know that Google is in the tank for Obama…perhaps this is why they continue to do nothing. Hmmmm…does make one wonder.
Paul says: Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’m definitely moving to Dogpile. I already puked when a representative of Iran was allowed to participate in today’s commemoration. Makes me want to cry that all these years later we still haven’t paid back 9/11 and now we let the same cockroaches share the stage with their victims.
Shawn says: I wonder what their cute little logo will look like on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade? Also curious what it will look like when they celebrate the invasion of Georgia by the noble Russians….
Google is Evil and rich, kinda like George Soros.
We discovered some other questionable Google logos as well, Cassy.
Anthony Fotia says: Google is gone. Dogpile is new search.
Chrissy says: Thanks for the heads-up! I’m removing Google from my bookmark bar and as my homepage. Go dogpile!
And who could forget Earth Day Black Out?
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/29/aiming-for-a-darker-world/
Or Googlag’s refusal, for eight years, until 2007, to commemorate U.S. Veterans on Memorial day even though Googlag made quite a big deal of recognizing soldiers from other nations – Remembrance Day in Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Googlag has recognized the satellite sputnik’s launch, Halloween, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday, the Persian New Year, the birthday of Percival Lowell, the Lunar New Year, National Teachers Day, Women’s Day, Ray Charles’ birthday, World Water Day and St. George’s Day, but it has ignored Christmas.
Bias & agenda much?
Chester Fester says: I don’t see where Google changed for 9/11 in years past either. I do find it odd which events warrant a change. I also find it strange that if it’s such a big deal that people are just now noticing.
Ben Franklin says: Listen to you idiots. Upset that you couldn’t see a little cartoon of burning buildings while you surfed for porn all day. As if you don’t already have the comemorative coin and pictures of burning towers all over you house to masturbate to. Ooooh, look at the fire! Fire! Fire!
The world laughs at you.
Julie says: I believe that taking a break from silly, ostentatious logo designs for the day was intended by Google to represent something like a moment of silence, not as an indication of apathy. It seems to me a difficult prospect to come up with a visual commemoration of 9/11 that will serve only to show respect and deference to its victims and that will not offend anyone.
What would you people suggest as a proper design for such an occasion?
nabil khatri says: Has any retard here noticed that Google only “celebrates”?
Spinmonkey says: No logo this morning. I really thought they should have done something. They do one for every f**king thing else. I suppose they don’t want to offend certain people. Or can it be that it’s too soon? Still?
J Willock says: I decided today was a good day to switch my home page to
http://www.bing.com.
Goodbye Google!
Sharkibark says: Thank you for the post.
I just changed my home page.
God bless, from a Canadian who remembers.
Dave G says: Not only did I switch my Firefox home page from google to bing, I switched the Firefox toolbar search thing to use bing also. I had to do the “Manage Search Engines” thing and then “Get more search engines” and then search for bing on the Firefox addons page.
HobbesDFW says: Ask.com also commemorates 9-11. Guess I’ll have to learn some new habits.
David Blue says: Thanks for this post. It’s Dogpile for me too, now, and I recommend the same to others (link).
Yeah, like their tasteful X-ray logo. At least they celebrate Veteran’s Day. But I’m switching to Dogpile. Yahoo is my new E-mail too. Well thats because I WAS once a google E-mailer. Anyway, I;m out, Peace!!!
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