Google Ignores Hanukkah, Again: Festival of Lights Dark on Homepage
On the day that marked the beginning of the holiest period of the Jewish calendar, September 13, I asked the Google team: Does the Wales born author of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”–Roald Dahl– really merit Happy Birthday wishes via a coveted Google.com commemorative logo today, while the 14 million plus Jews worldwide are snubbed on this Rosh Hashanna Jewish New Year, number 5768?
Eric, don’t you run the world’s biggest and best search engine which organizes ALL the world’s information, including holiday calendars? Sergey, weren’t you born into the Jewish faith? Larry, are you also not of Jewish parentage? Between the three of you, HOW is it possible to ignore today’s important Jewish holiday that even pubic schools acknowledge!
Hours later, Google removed its number one homepage tribute to Dahl, but did not add a nod to the Jewish New Year. In fact, Google has NEVER acknowledged any Jewish or Israeli holiday with Google.com special logos.
Christmas, New Year’s Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine’s Day…Easter, St. Patrick’s Day, Chinese New Year, Bastille Day get the GOOG special treatment….BUT never Hanukkah, Passover, Jewish New Year, Israel Independence Day, Holocaust Memorial Day…
Google has a track record of snubbing Jewish holidays come logo time, I underscored in September:
Christmas, Googley YES! But Hannukah, NO Google go!
Easter Googley YES! Passover, NO Google go!
I ASKED: Will the Google executive suite learn some holiday logo manners in time for Hanukkah 2007?
NO GOOGLE WAY, ONCE MORE!
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