Google & Memorial Day

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Google & Memorial Day

Postby Sonny on Mon May 29, 2006 2:26 pm

Google has a tradition of changing their logo to reflect "important" days. Apparently Memorial Day doesn’t make the cut.

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Re: Google & Memorial Day

Postby Hackalicious on Mon May 29, 2006 2:55 pm

Sonny wrote:Google has a tradition of changing their logo to reflect "important" days. Apparently Memorial Day doesn’t make the cut.


They've never done one for Memorial day, Veteran's day, Christmas, Hanukkah, or Ramadan.

http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

I don't think memorial day would fit into their theme of cutesy cartoon graphics.

But, let me guess. Liberal conspiracy, right?
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Re: Google & Memorial Day

Postby Sonny on Mon May 29, 2006 4:03 pm

Hackalicious wrote:They've never done one for Memorial day, Veteran's day, Christmas, Hanukkah, or Ramadan.

http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

I don't think memorial day would fit into their theme of cutesy cartoon graphics.

But, let me guess. Liberal conspiracy, right?


But MLK, Jr day is OK a cutesy cartoon?

I guess to some -- Arthur Doyle's birthday is more important to recognize then Memorial Day.
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Postby OAKS on Mon May 29, 2006 6:00 pm

It looks like Thanksgiving and July 4th are the only holidays that are pretty exclusive to the US that I can see. Everything else seems to be pretty international.
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Postby bste_lax on Mon May 29, 2006 6:01 pm

I can't wait until No Pants Day gets one......
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Postby UofMLaxGoalie11 on Mon May 29, 2006 6:25 pm

bste_lax wrote:I can't wait until No Pants Day gets one......

I have a few ideas for that one already...
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Postby sohotrightnow on Mon May 29, 2006 10:21 pm

Google has a tradition of changing their logo to reflect "important" days. Apparently Memorial Day doesn’t make the cut.


Jesus, did Bill O'Reilly log into your account today?
Monica Lewinsky had more president in her than George Bush ever will.
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Postby Hackalicious on Tue May 30, 2006 12:25 am

sohotrightnow wrote:
Google has a tradition of changing their logo to reflect "important" days. Apparently Memorial Day doesn’t make the cut.


Jesus, did Bill O'Reilly log into your account today?


It's all part of the liberal media's war against memorial day.

My god, they've even gotten to USLIA.com!

What will the troops think when they check out the latest Eckerd College vs. Appalachian State photos and see that we've forgotten Memorial day?
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Postby Lax_Stats on Tue May 30, 2006 2:52 am

You should have gone to www.dogpile.com which combines google, yahoo search, msn search, & ask.com. They had their little doggie logo in front of the wall in Washington DC.
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Postby Lax_Stats on Tue May 30, 2006 2:53 am

sohotrightnow wrote:
Google has a tradition of changing their logo to reflect "important" days. Apparently Memorial Day doesn’t make the cut.


Jesus, did Bill O'Reilly log into your account today?


Jesus???? Is the Savior now posting in this forum??? :shock:
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Postby Sonny on Tue May 30, 2006 6:12 am

OAKS wrote:It looks like Thanksgiving and July 4th are the only holidays that are pretty exclusive to the US that I can see. Everything else seems to be pretty international.


Well they found the time to celebrate the Chinese New Year, Korean Liberation Day, Canada Day, Bastille Day, Dragon Boat Festival, and several other holidays from other countries in years past.

Is it really that hard to display a simple US flag? (If I had an army of editors and graphic designers at my disposal, I think I could find the time....) Nah, the flag would probably offend someone. We couldn't have that.
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Postby DanGenck on Tue May 30, 2006 8:34 am

Hackalicious wrote:
sohotrightnow wrote:
Google has a tradition of changing their logo to reflect "important" days. Apparently Memorial Day doesn’t make the cut.


Jesus, did Bill O'Reilly log into your account today?


It's all part of the liberal media's war against memorial day.

My god, they've even gotten to USLIA.com!

What will the troops think when they check out the latest Eckerd College vs. Appalachian State photos and see that we've forgotten Memorial day?


Won't somebody please think of the troops? (In my Helen Lovejoy voice...)
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Postby Hackalicious on Tue May 30, 2006 11:19 am

Sonny wrote:Is it really that hard to display a simple US flag? (If I had an army of editors and graphic designers at my disposal, I think I could find the time....) Nah, the flag would probably offend someone. We couldn't have that.


They display the flag on July 4th.

They also US display a flag motif all year round here: http://www.google.com/unclesam

So, there goes the "they're scared of offending someone" argument.

My take is that they stick exclusively to celebrations or honoring famous individuals (Arthur Conan Doyle, Motzart, MLK). The national holidays they've featured like the 4th of July and Bastille Day are celebrated as days of independence.

Not once have they ever put up a logo for a somber day of rememberance.

But I hear the Kazahkstanis are upset that they didn't put up a logo memorializing the Tishnek massacre.

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Postby Joe Oakland on Tue May 30, 2006 1:02 pm

sohotrightnow wrote:
Google has a tradition of changing their logo to reflect "important" days. Apparently Memorial Day doesn’t make the cut.


Jesus, did Bill O'Reilly log into your account today?



that was hilarious
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Postby Tim Whitehead on Tue May 30, 2006 3:27 pm

I would think that there are much more important things than this to get all up in a tizzy about...
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