Disklavier

Mark wrote:
> Some of us may have objections to the Google world philosophy. They 
> refuse to recognize the good ole US of A with any semblance of honor or 
> respect. They refuse to note any of our national historical holidays 
> like Memorial or Veterans Day. They will make their Google mast head 
> green for Saint Patrick's Day and recognize Canadian Memorial Day but 
> take a very proactive anti-American position. Is this acceptable to DUG 
> members?
>
> Mark in Idaho
>   

http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos05.html (etc, back to 99

I can identify 47 directly US targeted special logos, and I think I've
been quite conservative, out of a total of 146 commemorative (excluding
the doodle series they do almost every year for "Happy Holidays" (i.e.,
Christmas for those that think the world revolves around Christianity).
Given that the rest of the logos are celebrating the births of major
scientists or artists, it seems like Google have a very strong USA bias
(which is what you would expect for a US multinational company).

From what I know (and I am probably wrong), Canada day has far more in
common a celebration such as  July 4th or St. Patrick's Day than
Veterans day.  In any case, why should Google risk upsetting a major
part of their user base by doing that anyway - when these events
essentially celebrate wars that were (and are) still questionable in
their motives.

Quite frankly I don't see what any of this has to do with DUG members
though. There are members of this forum all around the world, Yamaha is
a Japanese company and not American, and whether Google recognises US
Memorial or Veterans days is simply not relevant to the discussions.

Regardless, I really despise what Yahoo have done to their email groups,
and will welcome any move away from the system - it is *horrible* to
reply to emails now (no doubt this is the plan - get everyone onto the
web forums and it gets much easier to track your movements using cookies
installed by adverts).


James (in Gloucestershire, UK)