27 Replies to “Google Commemorative Logos You’ll Never See”

  1. Just tested typing in “Islam is” in Google, and can confirm the good folks at Google have made sure any completions of that phrase have been sent down the memory hole. Conversely, typing in “Christianity is” helpfully provides the searcher with the phrase “Christianity is bullsh*t” near the top of the list.
    Not like I needed another, but this is yet another reason why I have Bing as my default internet search engine.

  3. Google’s loss is Bing’s gain. As a business this is an era you don’t want to be involved with Politics.
    Google has made it plain where they stand when they went to China ti install a net to catch political or social dissent. Their totalitarian in nature.

  4. This is what I got when I did a Google Search for Islam Is: searchengineland.com/islam-is-blocked-by-google-suggest-bug-32921
    Strange brew

  5. Thats it. I am switching to Bing.
    What utter bull on Googles part. They’re either pussies or they have politically correct baseball bats up their collective arses.
    Damn thats dumb.

  6. I also switched to Bing as the choices seem to be closer to what I need or want. Not as many choices way off target or remotely related to my search. Just better overall.

  7. Excerpt from Belmont Club:
    “90. JMH:
    Google, btw, is (in)famous for hiring according to a different model, they want to find the smartest guy in the room. They *do* believe in the educated class, the elite, the technocrat.
    Google isn’t the first tech company to hire this way. I worked at Microsoft for, oh, three or four lifetimes if measured in Internet years. We were aggressive about hiring “super-smart” people. The ideal hire was someone who was smart, ambitious, self-confident and self-motivated. It worked great. For a while.
    But ultimately the company’s original culture – one of doggedly, relentlessly driving for results and not accepting excuses – gave way to a bureaucratic malaise. It’s a danger for all organizations, but Microsoft achieved it in an interesting way (maybe only because I had a ring side seat for it). Too many of those smart, self-confident people had trouble accepting blame, of believing that they had screwed up or even that one of their super-smart colleagues might have a better idea. Part of it was the review system – promos and bonuses were highly skeweed to the “high potential” employees so any admition of error was dangerous to your career and financial potential.
    In the early years, this was kept in check by two things – one, the company was successful but still surrounded by tough competitors and had no mistaken assumptions about guaranteed profits, and two, the stock option plan was the most lucrative part of the job and it was less subject to the pressures of the review model. So people were motivated to do the right thing and make sure the company was successful, even at the cost of some future career potential. One VP expressed it this way: “At work, the Company comes first, the customer comes second, your product comes third, your team comes fourth, and your career comes fifth. And if you’re spending any time on priority number five, you’re probably not doing enough on the first four.”
    But as the company transitioned from first among equals to the Colossus of Redmond, the pressure to deliver slackened. A rot crept into planning, an assumption that the money would always flow in at the same prodigious rate, a lack of fear that the competition could actually win. Managers and ambitious climbers began to worry more about rival Microsoft employees than about rival companies. Decisions began to be made and plans executed based on internal political jockeying, not on defending or extending market penetration, customer satisfaction, or technological leadership.
    Then the tech stock bubble burst taking the options gravy train with it, and the old guard still focused on products instead of career velocity began to give up. A few here, a few more there, then a flood, the people who kept at least some progress going in product development left. Moved to other companies, started their own, or sometimes just retired. The last decade was a Locust Decade for Microsoft, and it’s left with little energy or momentum, struggling to find leadership and baffled at the seeming impossibility of making progress on even the easiest things.
    In one way, it’s a microcosm of the “Educated Elites” in the western world. Too self-confident to admit failure even if they weren’t blinded to it by decades of prosperity earned by those who came before. Too focused on political rivalries, turf battles, and what amounts to Court Society to put any effort into useful work. Unable to differentiate between what they were bequeathed and what they built themselves. And ultimately not self-critical enough to notice external feedback.
    Their OODA loop has no O’s in it, and sometimes no vowels at all. They aren’t fixable. They need to be replaced.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/01/05/new-lamps-for-old/#comments

  8. I don’t get it. I googled “Islam” and got 111,000,000 hits. “Christianity” gives me 51,200,000 hits.

  10. Google schmoogle.
    Does anyone really believe that control over the distribution of information will not be bent by the controller to suit their tastes and opinions?
    Read White House press releases and wonder what planet they’re on.
    When I was a kid, a great deal was made of the the Nazi propaganda machine’s influence on the fair-minded peace-loving German people.
    Every politician and ad agency director world-wide secretly said to themselves:”Jeez … How’s they do it? … I could use one of those.”

  11. I left Google behind as soon as Bing was activated and haven’t looked back.
    As for the logo, what has it been?–5 years now since the infamous toons were published? And we still have Muslims crashing through doors with knives attempting to kill any and all who were involved with it?
    Taken by itself, this is just plain weird. But then OBL & Co cannot get over the loss of Andalusia, rendering the 5-year obsession with Jyllands-Posten a fleeting thought.

  12. This should be google’s “We’re more popular than Jesus Christ” moment that was such a great PR success for the Beatles.
    I’m hoping this goes viral through the the US bible belt. While I do find some of those folks unappetizing, I’d get behind them on this one.

  13. If I recall correctly, one of the two co-founders of Google gave B.O. a tour of its facilities in California during the presidential campaign. There was conjecture at the time that he was up for the post of Chief Technical Officer in any future Obama administration. I don’t think that ever happened but it wouldn’t be a stretch to conclude that a close relationship might still exist whereby Google throttles certain search criteria at the behest of the WH.

  15. I don’t get it. I googled “Islam” and got 111,000,000 hits. “Christianity” gives me 51,200,000 hits.
    Posted by: BDFT at January 6, 2010 8:25 AM
    BDFT, the phrase you want to try is “Islam is”.

  16. BDFT
    Colin’s point (post 1) is not HITS; of course you’ll get hits; what you won’t get is “Islam is bull**it,” or similar helpful search terms, in the nice little suggestion box as you type, like you do with other searches you might perform.
    That’s Google programmatically filtering search assistance phrases related to Islam.

  17. From my programmer pal:
    Any search engine has always been “string agnostic”. There is only one explanation, string “Islam is” must have been entered to an exclusion table which filters it out.

  18. You type “Islam is” and get ZERO suggestions? Wow!
    I just tried it, they still haven’t “fixed” it. That’s major.
    I wonder if the Big Brains in upper management realize how fast chickens like this are coming home to roost on their products? Their reputation rises or falls in Internet time, not real time. Their stock could go to ten bucks in a week if they torque enough geeks off.
    Computer types HATE these underhanded bias things, particularly the Open Source weenies like Richard Stalman who are forever raging on that property is theft. Google’s Android “open source” cell phone is getting out in the market right now. A million suspicious nerds are going to rip in to that phone, and Google better pray they didn’t put any back doors or tricks in there.
    Blackberry and Apple stock would seem to be safe, eh?

  19. I switched to bing and i lovei t they are patriotic , and i love there art work on there home pages be it an eagle ,and AMERICAN flag or mount rushmore, or what evevr it is nice to see them tie into some art or just nice pictures .
    Google is plain and lame ass !!
    Paul in calgary

  20. Just tried ‘Islam is’ and get no drop down box at all !!! sda gets results, heh !
    ‘Islam i’ … returns ‘in different counties, ect’
    but as soon as ‘s’ completes ‘is’ the drop box disappears.
    So now google thinks Islam is nothing.
    How can this google thing change by the minute ? Running averages, logarithms do not do that. Some one must have their grubby fingers on the edit button constantly.

  22. ONE thing is certain RON IN KELOWNA google knows CHRISTIANITY IS BULL SH&% LOL ..if you type that in it still drops down and a list of about 10 slanderous line like christianity is fake ,is not real ,is flase,is stupid,so on and so forth so at least they know that !! what a bunch of idiot’s …also one other thing i did but know one knows it yet but at work i changed all of our search engines and all of that to bing and actually some one did make a comment before christmas at the nice picture on the search thing but never asked who changed it …lol. by by google !!!
    Paul in calgary.

  23. I find this deeply offensive. If the infidel dogs at Google know what’s good for them, they’ll fix this quick. It should look like this:
    Islam is
    ————————————————-
    Islam is awesome
    Islam is the one true faith
    Islam is our future
    Islam is the best decision I ever made
    Islam is not connected to terrorism in any way

  25. Islam is lame
    Islam is on the lam
    putting the slam in Islam
    Is lam lame?
    islamb of god , who takest away the …….

  26. When was the last time a Christian, Jew, Buddhist, etc. threatened to kill anyone who insulted their religion? ‘Nuf said.

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