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?
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12:56 pm
Sad. Just sad.
12:58 pm
Show how elite the Google folks can be.
Too bad they aren’t Country First. Some folks aren’t. Too bad.
12:58 pm
They also celebrated the super collider yesterday.
12:59 pm
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.
1:00 pm
Google is Eeeeevvviiiilll!
1:00 pm
PSPS
congrats on the “hotair” link.
>:)
1:02 pm
[...] Day. Father’s Day. What do these all have in common? They’re all days that Google marks by altering its logo. What about September 11th? Well, it’s the same as Google’s logos on Memorial Day and [...]
1:04 pm
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).
http://www.dogpile.com/
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.
1:05 pm
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.
1:08 pm
I never had any idea. That’s the last time I use Google for anything. I’ll stick to Yahoo.
1:12 pm
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1:13 pm
Not Surprising: Google ignoring 9-11
Surprising: Google commemorating Father’s Day
1:13 pm
I’ve been using Dogpile for a while now, screw the google commies.
I do believe Google skipped Memorial Day too. Jerks.
1:16 pm
They’ve also commemorated Sputnik, if you recall. Sputnik: great historical event. 9/11? Natch.
Oh, the freakish insanity of the liberal mind.
1:17 pm
Is that the 48-state flag?
1:19 pm
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.
1:25 pm
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1:30 pm
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1:32 pm
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.
1:35 pm
You know that Google is in the tank for Obama…perhaps this is why they continue to do nothing. Hmmmm…does make one wonder.
1:37 pm
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.
1:43 pm
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.
1:49 pm
Here’s a full list of “special” Google logos.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html
1:54 pm
Check out their other “special holiday” logos. WTH?
1:58 pm
Google Remembers 9-11……
…By doing nothing, Cassy Fiano notes, adding that once again, the Dogpile search engine has a simple, tasteful cartoon on its homepage which does remember 9/11, and even adding the symbol that’s dread by all transnationalists on Gaia’s green earth,…
2:01 pm
We discovered some other questionable Google logos as well, Cassy.
http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/conservative-satire/google-unveils-new-logos-to-commemorate-american-holidays/
2:18 pm
[...] Some don’t want to remember. [...]
2:23 pm
Google is gone. Dogpile is new search.
2:56 pm
Thanks for the heads-up! I’m removing Google from my bookmark bar and as my homepage. Go dogpile!
3:28 pm
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?
3:40 pm
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.
3:48 pm
9/11…
Never forget. That was all I was going to say and then, I read about how people actively want to forget. It is childish to pretend that terrorists didn’t execute a plot to kill as many Americans as possible on……
4:03 pm
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5:28 pm
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1:03 pm
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.
2:40 pm
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?