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Appears that today there is a soccer theme to Google's homepage.

This is exactly what pisses me off. World Cup is a big event....but is it more important than Veterans day or Memorial Day?

I think I smell aniti-american activism.

Grrrr

-Weer'd Beard
 
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so true...... oh crap.. lol, yes I run on a proxy IP sometimes... Malaysia today [thinking]
 
Weer'd Beard said:
Appears that today there is a soccer theme to Google's homepage.

This is exactly what pisses me off. World Cup is a big event....but is it more important than Veterans day or Memorial Day?

I think I smell aniti-american activism.

Grrrr

-Weer'd Beard
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Google is a world wide search engine and, yes, to the rest of the world World Cup is more important than any US holiday. World Cup is viewed worldwide by over 2 billion people. Don't get me wrong, I'm not putting down anything American, but let's not be so quick to cry anti-american just because we don't agree with it or don't understand.
 
anthonyne said:
Google is a world wide search engine and, yes, to the rest of the world World Cup is more important than any US holiday. World Cup is viewed worldwide by over 2 billion people. Don't get me wrong, I'm not putting down anything American, but let's not be so quick to cry anti-american just because we don't agree with it or don't understand.
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It is a world-wide engine...but it's still an American Company. I might see things differently if it was a forign company with HQ in the States, but it isn't.

maybe I'm off-base, but I don't think so.

-Weer'd Beard
 
I don't think you are off base, but like any other company, they are looking at the bottom line. That being profit. Right now the world is dialed into the World Cup, so they are following that lead. I just got back from spending two weeks in Italy. The World Cup is just starting and the people are already whipped up into a frienzy. It's all they are talking about. I thought the hoopla around the Superbowl was big. It's not even a candle flame against what soccer is over there.

Anyway, it would be nice for them to recognize our Memorial/Veterans day, but it's not where the money is. It's unfortunate, but money is what makes the world turn. Or so they say.
 
Bravo Sierra! So far for 2006, Google has seen fit to use special logos for such internationally recognized holidays as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Birthday (5/22), Mother's Day (5/14), Persian New Year (3/21), St. Patrick's Day (3/17), Birthday of Percival Lowell (3/13), Lunar New Year (1/29), Martin Luther King Day (1/16), and Louis Braille's Birthday (1/4). Can anybody actually contend that there's a bigger world-wide cult following, I mean economic market to be tapped, by attracting devotees of Percival Lowell or Arthur Conan Doyle than Veteran's Day or Memorial Day? Is Iran such a hot market for advertisers that they'll pay more for clicks generated by net-savvy mullahs than by families of current and former military? Somebody just decided that they just didn't like to be asssociating themselves with those nasty people with guns.

Ken
 
Also am I missing somthing on the profit margin? When google changes it's homepage is it being done for or by a SPONCER? or is it more "Corperate flair" just to give a little change to the static look of the homepage for festive occations.

in otherwords if Google did an american flag at half-staff durring Memorial day, or somthing of the like, would they actully LOOSE money? And are they gaining any money by putting up a Scoccer ball on the home page?

Nope, I think they are omitting these days on pourpose, and I think we all know the reason.

-Weer'd Beard
 
Google has pay per click, or something like that. So yes, if you click on some of the links, they charge the person for having thier name higher on the list.

So, if more Soccer links are paying, then they will show up first. I think that's what they are saying.

Not too many Veterans or Memorial day businesses.

But it still doesn't jive along with what Ken is saying. There isn't a lot of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Birthday businesses either.

St Patty's day, I can see...all the beer compaines. Mother's day, hallmark and flower companies. But some of these others...
 
I would almost belive that solution C-Pher, but on the days in question just the Standard Google Homepage appears.

If they were doing it for bottom line profit I might understand a paying site buying out Vets Day or Memorial Day.

But on those days the logo was unchanged. It's not like it takes very long to make those simple logo changes. Since it remains unchaged on the days in question it only points to blatantly ignoring the days, or just a lack of respect.

neither one pleases me very much.

-Weer'd
 
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