DirkGently said:
Socken said:
DirkGently said:
While the tone of it is all wrong, understand where these people are coming from. Google choose to commemorate the universe of an iconic videogame, over one of the most important dates in history, whether it be American, British, Canadian, Australian, German, French, or Russian. The day that marked the beginning of the end for Hitler's Third Reich, and the liberation of those conquered lands (since the french couldn't hold their own.)
And how, exactly, would you expect Google to commemorate this important date?
Blood, bullets, and dead bodies all over the logo? Yeah that would surely show decency.
Of course I understand where they're coming from, but they're blowing it way out of proportion. Besides, anti-American? Seriously? Well I didn't celebrate Independence Day either, quite possibly because I'm not from the US, does that make me anti-American? Of course not, it just makes me
not American.
I mean the fact that I can access Google from over here in Germany and read it in my language should be proof enough that Google most certainly isn't American.
Seriously, that's like saying Sweden is anti-American because they're not called the USA.
Have you thought about google being a company based out of out of America, and considering it's an American corporation, one really could consider it American.
I'm not saying they should have done it, or how they could have done it, but just merely pointing out where people are coming from. And before, they've done the google logo as something in the middle of a bigger picture, they could have just put it in something, not spelled google out in a thematically relevant manner.
I know they're based in America, but the fact that the site can be accessed and used from all over the world means, at least to me, that they shouldn't necessarily celebrate American holidays or whatever. 75% of the users wouldn't know what the heck that would be all about.
I also understand that you're not saying they should've done it, but let me quickly address that example with the logo in the middle of a bigger picture.
I really don't think most people would like it if they just headed on to google for a quick search and were greeted with a scene from a war movie or something.
Basically all I'm saying is, I understand that these people who complained about it were upset about google seemingly preferring Tetris over America (even though that is kind of far-fetched), but when you think about it there really is no way for Google to commemorate D-Day without looking like they're making a joke of it. Google has never been the most serious site out there, and they are well known for their easter eggs so switching to dead serious memorial site would've been kind of awkward.
That said, I'm not trying to say that you're wrong, you just happen to give examples as to why I think the guys in the first post are wrong.
