Valleywag
Ask.com bungled the spelling of Cinco de Mayo, but at least they made an effort. Pictured here are Yahoo's animated mariachis and dancers. But Google, the company well known for its holiday flights of logo fancy? Nada. Yes, it's actually a minor holiday south of the border. But the victory in Puebla over the French has gone unnoticed in the Googleplex for the ninth year running.
Nor has Google México ever celebrated the country's independence on September 16. Nor has the company ever celebrated the birthday of any Mexican or American of Mexican descent — such as California civil rights legend César Chávez — even though all sorts of folks have been honored with birthday logos. When will Marissa Mayer deign to honor the employees and users of Mexican heritage with their own doodle? Probably sometime after she wears her first Eduardo Lucero.
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I'm so proud Jackson - it's your first Kanye moment.
I noticed, and it IS screwed up!
Not like Cinco De Mayo is some kind of mini-holiday, its pretty large compared to the other 'crap' that alter 'the google' from time to time!
see:
Persian New Year - March 20, 2008
Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday - March 3, 2008
50th anniversary of the LEGO brick - January 28, 2008
Happy New Year & 25 Years of TCP/IP - January 1, 2008
We used to have a different logo for "Uncle Sam" search:
Not hispanic myself but common!!
It also happens to be Kodomo no Hi (Children's Day), but I don't see any of these search sites recognizing that.
No one cares about the children!
*snort*
Does Google have fewer blacks or latinos?
To the contrary, Marissa Mayer is celebrating Cinco de Mayo (and honoring Mexicans everywhere) by sporting about town in a dress made of Frida Kahlo's old table linens.
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Mmmm hmmm.
There's a lily white conspiracy or cupcake in the middle of all this.
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".. victory in Puebla over the French..."
If victory over the French would be a holiday, the entire world would have half the year off
wow piss off 1/3 of the working population (as expected in about 10-15 years).
nice google. unless you want to keep true to your image...white boys can search and latinos can't?
@el_googlo: Funny, it seems the French actually take about that much time off themselves.
Perhaps Google should have bid on a different frequency:
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WHAT DOES HE SAY?
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Buy the product but never use it. You will, after you hear the live Tex-Mex version:
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Happy Cinco de Radio, radio, radio....
Actually, the holiday is bigger in the US than in Mexico.
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