How Google honored D-Day
I can’t even begin to tell you how pissed I am about this. My buddy Chris emailed me this morning about it, and sure enough…
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Want to see my surprised look? Not.
Hang on…let me check…
Nope. Not shocked or surprised.
Yup…
Why would anyone expect anything less from the clueless left? Google is full of Obots, from the owners on down, so this action is not the least surprising.
In fact, British PM Gordon Brown today referred to Omaha Beach as Obama Beach. I. Sh1t. You. Not.
We’re going to need our own American D-Day to begin the liberation of our nation from the Obots and their “Dear Leader”.
God Bless all those who have served and are serving now.
I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!!!!
Ok, not really.
The left is not interested in honoring those that made the ultimate sacrifice for all of mankind, because it would expose their own inadequacies. They can’t have that. They would rather work on completing the work of moral relativism with the upcoming generations and if you show what true self sacrifice and moral courage is, it makes them look bad.
You guys are really on the lookout for perceived slights. Congratulations, you’ve been victimized again!
Do I question their patriotism?
Abso-fricken-lutely!
Piss off, lurker. It isn’t about victimization, that’s a calling unto the leftists. It’s about recognizing something that is more important and bigger than Tetris. You are exactly what I wrote about in my previous post and you didn’t disappoint, so congratulations, assmunch.
Dear Lurker,
It’s not about “victimization”. We’ll leave that to you tools on the left. It’s about honoring those who have sacrificed far more than you can ever hope to imagine so dipshits like you can piss all over their efforts, despite the undeniable fact you’d never have had the balls to make a similar choice. But what the hell, someone else is paying the freight for your ride, right?
Voice your opinion directly to google using this link. I did and the more voices head the more they might rethink decisions like this in the future.
http://www.google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?press=1
Ha-ha, American! Do you want hamburger? Do you want pizza?
1SG B,
Done. Thanks for the link. It was everything I could do to remain civil.
respects,
As Tim said, thanks for the link. Sent. If you really need to search for something on the net, I’d recommend Ask.com. Much better than Google.
Where is my comment, you Nazis?
Deutscher Liberaler,
Sie bitten um unsere Antwort. Würde eine gültige Antwort Sie wünschen Bratwurst sein, oder wünschen Sie jagerschnitzel?
Gehen Kuss ein immigrant von der Türkei sie pimple auf dem esel einer harten arbeitsnation.
All,
On the other hand, Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing.com, dedicate’s its entire page to D-Day. Count me as a new Bing.com user.
Chris
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
1SG B,
Done. Thanks for the link.
And I like your answer to GL :o)
was für ein Idiot
How ironic.
German Liberal complaining about Nazis.
Sigh.
Even better than Google; use GoodSearch. Donate the money to Soldiers’ Angels or something. Anything.
You people are fat and weak. Do you want hamburger or pizza to go with your complaining tears, fat American crysbabies?
The trolls are out today.
I never use Gagged, my search engine of choice is Ask. Problem solved but it doesn’t help that my blog is hosted on blogger and yes I do have a gmail account so I am far from Google free. I encourage folks to try the other search engines, you might be surprised at some of your search results that don’t use their highly vaunted algorithm.
No veteran (past, present, or future) gives a damn about what google.com does to honor his sacrifice.
Really Panucci? Because I’ve served with atleast 3 people who have comments here and they cared, or they wouldn’t have commented.
“Danish Liberal”? Really? Would that make you muslim, as your country can’t seem to stand up to them, just as you couldn’t stand up to the Nazis? If it weren’t for the allies, you’d still be speaking German. And, I doubt they would have tolerated a “liberal” for long.
Danish Liberal,
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
Really, about the only thing that any European nation is capable of saying these days is “I Surrender!”
So, DL, do us all a favour, mmkay? When you are up to your @ss in radical muslims, please don’t call us Americans to come fail you out. We’ve shed enough blood for ungrateful p*ssies like you. Just try and ship out your national treasures before the nuzzies destroy them all, so you can look back now and then and remember what it was like before they cut off your b@lls and took out your spines.
B/T
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Hey, guess what? Google didn’t do a doodle for D-Day last year either – instead they did one for Diego Velasquez’ birthday.
Strangely, they didn’t do on in 2007, either. (Though 2007 was the first year they did one for Veterans’ Day, a practice they continued last year.)
In fact, it appears that they’ve never done a doodle for the anniversary of the Normandy invasion.
And yet for some reason, everyone blames it on Obama being president this year.
Face it, Google’s founders are geeks. The 25th anniversary of Tetris is probably more significant to them than the 65th anniversary of the Normandy invasion (which I won’t call D-Day anymore as there were multiple D-Days in multiple theaters – I despise the popular practice of only referring to the Normandy invasion as D-Day.). Nothing political about it.
While I am somewhat disappointed in their tardy addition of Veterans’ Day to the lost of holidays honored with special logos (and continue to be annoyed by the lack of Memorial Day),
ultimately, it is their choice.
It may be gone tomorrow – but today at Bing.com , the new Microsoft search engine hoping to compete with Google – they have had a full page view of the beach head with small squares which open up and reveal short ‘factoids’ when the cursor runs over one. So in terms of recognizing D-Day, the score is Bing one, Google, crap.
Well what do you expect from a bunch of liberals who pay the Japanese and Germans to build their cars,and don’t care if American auto workers are unemployed. In fact they probably like it.
Did anyone seriously have a party or celebrate D-Day other then memoriums?
I didn’t have a party, but as I do every year on the 6th, I set aside a good chunk of time to watch the speeches, and then whatever movies/TV shows the History Channel et al are running.
Did you throw a Tetris party yesterday?
Why are all you people in a state of wonder? Americas credo has changed to ” Hooray for me,…k everyone else!!!!!
Google is a global company with users all over the world. Perhaps they thought that users in former axis countries might not be so enthusiastic about celebrating America’s invasion of France, in the war that FDR promised to keep us out of.
Government wars are humanity’s failures, they cost lives and money. They shouldn’t be celebrated. Tetris was a great product produced by the free market, it deserves recognition alot more than FDR’s imperialism and abject lies.
The ability to sit on your A, staring at a computer screen complaining about what Google does to recognize D-day is as much your freedom as it is Theirs to decide what non-important doodle they come up with on any given day. My grandfather served in WW2, and there’s no greater honor for him than to be resting in Arlington after living a peaceful, rewarding life…not worrying about an internet search engine that, in the end, means absolutely nothing.
So you’re angry at a company that provides a search engine to multiple continents, aside from the U.S. who might not want to mourn/celebrate a national tradgety or be riled up by past losses or wins in a war setting.
And some here are going into politics and talking about liberals and Obama. Others are making the immature and irrelevant justification about not throwing “tetris parties.”
This is a big deal because people like the ones here are turning it into such. A company went the business route in a strateigic manner to avoid negative feelings on war from its numerous clients and went with a neutral event instead. Last year they also did not put any war-related slogans on.
All these points *might* be relevant had Google not done other things, like honored May Day and such.
Google would have been foolish to associate with something like this. It’s always a terrible idea from a business perscpective to create tension on any side of a touchy subject. It is a war and in the past and people should remember it, just not by glamorizing it in the way the internet tends to make it happen.
Sure, google has holiday-related logos, but not just for America. Other countries have theirs up sometimes, and they also change their logo for other events news-related, commemorative, etc, but, unlike MS which is undergoing a massive change that is not in the limelight with Gates and his newfound mission to change the lives of millions (you should read up on that), and improve knowledge all together with bing, google isn’t about that on the same level.
If you’ve been on Bing, you’ll notice that it is saturated with information right down to the most obscure details…the only catch is that it is what they decide you should see. There is a lot of censorship.
Regardless, google does a simple, extensive search, so it makes one ignorant to compare google to bing in regards to this. You cannot compare 2 things created for different purposes (though same category) and that function in different ways.
Again, then explain why Yahoo can get away with it?
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/why-doesnt-google-honor-memorial-day-in-the-us/6967/
Yes, but TSO, have you kept up to date with all the non-U.S. holidays/events that have been brought to light?
As I’ve said, google is a neutral party that is run by smart business men. If you notice, very rarely (i can’t even recall one) does google EVER stray from a happier outlook or theme.
Yes, but TSO, have you kept up to date with all the non-U.S. holidays/events that have been brought to light?
As I’ve said, google is a neutral party that is run by smart business men. If you notice, very rarely (i can’t even recall one) does google EVER stray from a happier outlook or theme.
Also, how does this jibe with your “stay away from volatile subjects” meme:
Since it was founded in 1999, Google also has a history of commemorating National Teachers Day, Women’s Day, Ray Charles’ birthday, World Water Day and St. George’s Day, while ignoring Christmas, Memorial Day, and – until two years ago – Veteran’s Day.
Google has also been frequently criticized for its content policies and one-sided political slant:
Issuing a statement publicly opposing Proposition 8, California voters’ attempt to constitutionally define marriage as between one man and one woman
Restricting Christian advertising on the issue of abortion, until a lawsuit compelled Google to amend its policy
Rejecting an ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes
Rejecting ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while continuing to run attack ads against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
Allowing the communist Chinese government to have the search engine block “objectionable” search terms such as “democracy.”
Once again, TSO, Yahoo isn’t relevant to the specifics.
Saying “Yahoo can get away with it” makes it seems as though it were a difficult situation that took extreme courage and originality to pull off. Something that was amazing and we should applaud them for. It was a choice. They could do it or not. Either way, it doesn’t effect people directly. Why they are offended is questionable- I am not of the belief that a search engine should have enough power to cause such drama
Speaking specifically about google, if you want to be upset they didn’t put up a picture, that’s your choice. The same goes for other companies putting up constant reminders of it. I’d recommend writing to them and stating your opinion. Blogs, etc, for those who are upset only continue to make them look ignorant and foolish (not you, I’m referring to those to seem to relate this to liberals and things they have no concept of)
But as far as business is related I can see where their stance is with neutrality, whether or not it angers people for what they “should” be doing as a company. And I guess that’s all I can say.
Boycott google then, I don’t know what to tell you. But being a keyboard warrior over the net doesn’t make anyone care to the point of doing soemthing in real life.
Um, isn’t that what I did here? What with this being my blog and all, I thought I was just engaging in free speech, which seems to be what you are suggesting I do. And Google is more than free to honor Che Guevarra everyday, that’s their decision. I merely posted that others were pissed, and so was I.
I didn’t post stuff about liberals etc. I actually know for instance that Google recently brought a US Soldier on board to increase their representation of military issues. My point in posting this was to provide an outlet to show him the kinds of things about Google that piss them off. This post was more Better Business Bureau than Burning Pyre of Books.
I see your points in post 42. BUT: The Chinese government, first of all, has a commission to determine what and what is not blocked by google. Same goes with titter, wikipedia, yahoo, cnn, and countless others. They work in conjunction with this company on THEIR end on what is allowed in their policies. In other words, google isn’t controling anything. They can have an IT rep go over there at China’s reuest and/or other agencies help control and censor but a comapny has no say in international cyber laws (which are sticky anyway). They can filter out and pay companies for services Secondly: Prop 8: This was an interesting one, I’ll admit. Google, like everything else we spend the majority of our day using, is mass media. Many believe this is how Obama was elected- more mass media uniting younger voters. Google can, infact, urge people on political positions all it wants. That is a touchy subject, however, the idea is becomming more widespread. Google has every legal right to argue they don’t want certain views on abortion. Yes, they can also approve political ads as well. Now. What do all of these have in common? Money. now you’re going to say “well didn’t you just say…” No. It’s not freedom of speech if a private company wants to restrict content. That’s their right and in the EULA which I doubt anyone here has really read, you agree to use it if you agree to what google has. Fun fact: You do not have a reasonable right to privacy with google mail. You throw away all your rights with google being private and secure e-mail. They are allowed to use your emails without your consent in the “fight against terrorism” and in police activities. Hell, if I know you use google and I know how, and that email is of the type that is publicly accessible without hacking, I can read it too. Bottom line: You can criticize google all you want. The internet doesn’t care. And yes, all of those political issues could have very well been funded… Read more »
Well as a last thought, when things “piss me off” I actually do something about it which makes people think I’m crazy. Things like taking a stand against people who commit extreme injustice, in day to day life.
But do others share in this outside of blogging angrily? No. When I needed others to sign a paper of protest about what they saw they mainly said “Well I don’t want to get in trouble.”
I know all about being “pissed off” but letting it fester and continuing to be angry, other than doing something that makes you feel better or to cause a change is rather unproductive. And why you think I said you refered to liberals I don’t know because the sentence read “those who have posted on here.” Now, unless I’m mistaken, quite a few have posted.
And yes, there was a time were Che had a pic.
So, yes, use free speech. No one is personally attacking you or your character. But I suggest IN MY OPINION you do something about it rather and watch others be upset over it as well.
I am limited in what I can do in my non-pseudonymous personage.
So, what I do is blog.
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To all those that defend google as a “international” company as the lame ass excuse of why they were more into Tetris than D-Day. Well, what do you think D-Day was about? What was World War II? Yes, that’s right; it was a WORLD war, so that pretty much covers the “international” part. It wasn’t about “imperialism”, which is a wonderful communist buzzword, it was about liberation. Yes, you read that correctly. Most of Europe was under Nazi control, due to invasion and treaty. It was about tens of thousands that saw the only way to remove the oppressiveness was to confront it and liberate the people to have self determination, once again. These men had pretty much resigned themselves to the thought that this was a one way trip, yet they went. They knew what you apologists don’t and have never experienced; that defeat was not an option, no matter what. How many of you apologists could climb into an airplane knowing that when you jump out of it; you are a sitting duck for German machine gunners? How many could get into a landing craft knowing that the second that ramp drops, you are basically a nice big target for gun emplacements? How many of you could have dealt with THAT kind of stress and still did the job? Many were draftees that didn’t bitch, didn’t complain, didn’t say that liberating mainland Europe for “imperialist” goals was wrong and refused to board the landing craft or airplane. That’s balls. Big, hairy, stainless steel balls. If you are Dutch, or German, or French, Flemmish, whatever, over in Europe right now, then instead of trying to downplay what took place 65 years ago by defending google, you might want to spend some time reflecting on just what the hell took place back then, talk to some of the people that were alive back then and ask them how they felt having Nazi overlords and what they felt knowing that the allies were coming ashore. Once you’ve done that, you might feel compelled to whisper a little thank you to those… Read more »
Imperialists? Is that what you call the soldiers that were liberating France, Belgium, Denmark, etc? Is that what you call the troops that stopped the Holocaust? Apparently those countries must LOOOOOVE them some imperialists because they were certainly celebrating in the streets and running up to hug, kiss, and thank those invading imperialists.
Can Google do what it wants? Sure. Was slighting one of the greatest displays of selfless sacrifice in history in order to honor Tetris short sighted? You bet. You can argue it any way you want, but several nations took part in the invasion to save the lives of many, many more and that’s worth a mention.