Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Google Holidays

I noticed that today Google had a special page in celebration of Earth Day. Google celebrates with a special logo for every holiday from Darwin's Birthday to Monet's. But on Easter the central holiday of the world's largest religion was not considered worthy of celebration.

I guess in this religion-phobic world it is a pretty venial thing. Especially, when you realize that Google is doing the heavy lifting of totalitarian censorship for China. Maybe Easter was just was not communist friendly enough.

I guess you could argue that Google is learning that when you are big you go with the lesser of two evils. There of course have been the questions of privacy from this company who records everything from tool bar searches to photographs of your neighborhood. Google map's street level maps of, well everything, have caused some worry not just to local populations but also police.

Don't Be Evil?

Don't be naive.

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