May 31, 2006
Why Does Google Hate America?
Every once in awhile, we like to visit the other side as it were and cruise through the world of conservative blogs. Oh, the fun one can have at gawking at the alternate reality they live in, where the Stones, the Who and the Sex Pistols are stalwart conservative rockers, where Global Warming is some paranoid hysteria dreamed up by a bunch of tree huggers, and our President is a Great American Hero. Lately, we've discovered that their newest object of wrath is Google. Why? Because you know how Google always comes up with those cute little icons on holidays that they paste on their page? Well, they had no icon for Memorial Day.
You know what this means, of course? That while the rest of us think Google is a once cute tech company now about to take over the world, full of fresh faced engineers skipping through campus with their free five-star meals and scooters; Google really is an evil, liberal, Prius driving, America-hating, company that hates our freedom and makes little Baby Jesus cry.
Now granted, Google comes up with icons on not so big holidays as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday or the Persian New Year. Hell, a blogger at the National Review's Corner even mentions that Google came up with two-- TWO-- icons for Martin Luther King Day, but nothing on the day we're supposed to honor our war dead. How hard is it to put up a flag or ribbon or picture of W. on a flight deck? A few bloggers, obviously with nothing to do over the three day weekend, even e-mailed Google to complain, only to quickly get one of those automated "thank you" e-mails letting them know they're going to take their comments under advisement. Turns out, however, that they sent out the very same e-mails last year and still didn't put up something for Memorial Day. Both Ask.com and Dogpile did something (no word on Yahoo! or MSN). Either way, conservatives are getting mad and adding yet another thing to their list of Who Hates America.
If we were Larry or Sergey we'd be watching what we say on the phone because you never know when the NSA might be listening. Of course, at this point they could buy the NSA, but, well, you know.


Awesome post. Cheers from Italy...
I hope that one day, L&S will buy the Colosseo, and all the rest. I love Google. I love those guys. They can change us for a better future.
In Italy we need people like you!
excuse me but The Stones and The Who ARE .... stalwart conservative rockers.