No Celebration for President’s Day in the US
Posted at 8:28pm EST on 02/16/2009
This is something I actually find a little odd. They celebrate artists, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Holloween, and everything else under the sky, but Google is not celebrating the day of all our past presidents.
Google cannot try to hide behind the “we are not political” line, we know Google is quite forward with politics and where they stand.
Barry Schwartz wrote about this very topic last year, where Ask.com and Dogpile did suit up for President’s Day, while Yahoo! and Google did not.
This year is no different. Well, a slight variation, only Ask.com suited up for President’s Day. Google, Yahoo!, nor Dogpile suited up with custom logos/designs for this year’s President’s Day, today.
Overall, I’m just shocked that Google does not do something special for this day.
MATT
Feb 20th, 2009
the thing is, Google is now more “international”.Many people around the world use google.com and not google.uk or .ca or whatever from where they came from.. So, that’s why they didn’t suit up for that occasion. simple no ? ;)
Jonathan Dingman
Feb 20th, 2009
Well sure, but if you’re from DE or AU, you’re going to get redirected by default to your country’s Google domain.
Google doesn’t always use the same special holiday logo for every property they have when they do put something up. Say Valentine’s Day, they did something different for google.co.jp than they did for google.fr. They change it up. A Chinese, Japanese, or Australian holiday may be different than a US holiday, so they don’t celebrate it around the world.
I just strongly feel they should have done something for President’s Day.