No Canada for Google this Year
There were no doodles for Canada Day on Google.ca this year…something that all the Canucks noticed.
It’s long been a Google tradition, a wink to Canucks: A Canada Day version of the website’s logo, illustrated with Maple Leaves, a loon and even a beaver.
But yesterday? Nothing but the usual primary-coloured letters.
Asked for comment about the snub, a spokesperson offered little comfort in an e-mail.
“We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google and are sorry we missed one that’s special to you. As you may imagine, it’s difficult for us to choose which events to celebrate on our site. We have a long list of holidays that we’d like to celebrate in the future. We have to balance this rotating calendar with the need to maintain the consistency of the Google homepage.”
I can’t wait to see what they do for Fourth of July.
Tags: Globe and Mail, Google
7.3.08 at 10:03 pm
Kristen comments:
I hear you on the lack of ‘Canada Day’ recognition by our neighbours to the south.
This is also very disturbing to me …
from http://www.canada.com/chilliwacktimes/news/story.html?id=c90a1f36-1c62-4e57-aaaf-1b93b0fabb0e
“The Conservatives have been criticized for being slow to provide money to British Columbia’s celebrations of its 150th anniversary, but Harper said the Quebec celebration - into which the federal government has poured $110 million - is only one of a number of commemorations being funded.
“The federal government is putting money into not just the Quebec 400th, and not just British Columbia’s 150th anniversary, but also the 250th anniversary of the establishment of representative government, which happened in Nova Scotia,” he said.
“So we’re putting investment into all these things. This obviously has a special national historic significance because it really was the beginning of the Canadian state 400 years ago.” ”
Does anyone have any idea how much we receive in BC to fun Canada Day celebrations (never mind BC’s 150th anniversary) … it’s not fair nor proportionate but very, very sad.
Ok, ok … so I focus on what I am grateful for … we aren’t suffering from disasters like hurricanes, famine, or war on our soil.
7.4.08 at 2:45 pm
crunchy comments:
Funny I wondered the exact same thing when I head the FUSS going on about the Quebec celebrations…yeah yeah..I get old historic, etc..but yeah…SLIGHTLY unfair????